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Raging Bull
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*Raging Bull* is a 1980 American biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The cast includes Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, and Frank Vincent. The screenplay was written by Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin, Martin Scorsese, and Robert De Niro. Produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler, the film was distributed by United Artists and Netflix. It is a black-and-white film with a runtime of 129 minutes, originally in English.
The movie was filmed in New York City and Los Angeles, with narrative locations including the Miami metropolitan area, New York City, Michigan, and Miami. Thelma Schoonmaker served as the film editor, and Pietro Mascagni was the composer. The film is associated with the New Hollywood movement.
*Raging Bull* received the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. It was also named a Top Ten Film by the National Board of Review. The film received nominations for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor, and Best Director. It has a Metascore of 90 and an IMDb rating of 8.1.
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7.9The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Cast
- Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta
- Cathy Moriarty as Vickie LaMotta
- Joe Pesci as Joey LaMotta
- Frank Vincent as Salvy Batts
- Nicholas Colasanto as Tommy Como
- Theresa Saldana as Lenore
Themes
- florida
- new york city
- jealousy
- transporter
- sports
- brother
- paranoia
- violent husband
- boxer
- biography
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Ratings
IMDb
8.1/10
407,608 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Metacritic
90/100
- Year
- 1980
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 2 Oscars. 24 wins & 28 nominations total
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Encyclopedic overview
Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, which adapts Jake LaMotta's 1970 memoir Raging Bull: My Story. Robert De Niro stars as LaMotta, a former middleweight boxing champion whose turbulent personal life is beset by rage and jealousy. Scorsese dedicated the film to Armenian-American NYU film professor Haig P. Manoogian. The supporting cast includes Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent and Nicholas Colasanto (in his final film role).
Scorsese was initially reluctant to develop the project, although he eventually came to relate with LaMotta's story. Schrader rewrote Martin's first screenplay, and Scorsese and De Niro together made uncredited contributions thereafter. Pesci was a relatively unknown actor prior to the film, as was Moriarty, whom Pesci recommended. During principal photography, each of the boxing scenes was choreographed for a specific visual style, and De Niro gained approximately 60 pounds (27 kg) to portray LaMotta in his later years. Scorsese was exacting in the process of editing and mixing the film, expecting it to be his last major feature.
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