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Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent, and Nicholas Colasanto in his final film role. The film is an adaptation of former middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta 's 1970 memoir Raging Bull: My Story.
Aug 7, 2022 · Raging Bull's final scene shows Jake in 1964, years later, reciting a quote from On the Waterfront into the mirror and psyching himself up to deliver a comedy show to a crowded auditorium, bringing the film full circle to its opening, which introduced the older Jake LaMotta.
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Jun 25, 2021 · Raging Bull was what he thought would be his last movie. But it wasn't. Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's 1970 memoir Raging Bull: My Story.
Dec 19, 1980 · Raging Bull: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent. The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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Raging Bull began as Robert De Niro’s obsession, but the only man he believed could film it, Martin Scorsese, wasn’t interested—until the director’s near-fatal collapse gave him a visceral...
Martin Scorsese's 1980 film was voted in three polls as the greatest film of the decade, but when he was making it, he seriously wondered if it would ever be released: “We felt like we were making it for ourselves.”
Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating boxing opus—one of the last films on which he enjoyed unequivocal studio support—emerged from a Hollywood in transition.
