Raging Bull

"I don’t go down for nobody."

1980 2h 9m EN

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7.9

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92%

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8.1

IMDB

★7.9TMDB · 4,928🍅92%Rotten Tomatoes●90Metacritic★8.1IMDB · 407,608

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Synopsis

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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.

“I don’t go down for nobody.”

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Cast

Robert De Niro
Jake LaMotta
Cathy Moriarty
Vickie LaMotta
Joe Pesci
Joey LaMotta
Frank Vincent
Salvy Batts
Nicholas Colasanto
Tommy Como
Theresa Saldana
Lenore
Mario Gallo
Mario
Frank Adonis
Patsy

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin, Joseph Carter
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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46 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Martin Scorsese, shot by Michael Chapman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Thelma Schoonmaker shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Robert De Niro and Cathy Moriarty and Joe Pesci carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "I don’t go down for nobody.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0081398 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Martin Scorsese directs. Michael Chapman behind the camera. Thelma Schoonmaker cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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146 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Directed by Martin Scorsese, shot by Michael Chapman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Editor Thelma Schoonmaker shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
4Robert De Niro and Cathy Moriarty and Joe Pesci carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: "I don’t go down for nobody.".
6IMDB entry: tt0081398 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Classified under 24 themes, including "florida", "new york city", "jealousy", "transporter".
8Released under 18 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Michael Chapman
Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker
Production design: Gene Rudolf
Costume design: Richard Bruno
Makeup / hair: Mike Maggi
Stunt coordinator: Jimmy Nickerson
Runtime: 129 min · 2h 9m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $18,000,000
Box office: $23,380,203
Return: 130% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Raging Bull (1980)
Rotten Tomatoes: 92% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 90/100
IMDB rating: 8.1/10 · 407,608 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

Won 2 Oscars. 24 wins & 28 nominations total

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Academy Award for Best Actor

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Eky2012-06-19
This film marked the third reunion between Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro after “Mean Streets” and “Taxi Driver”. This time Scorsese invited Paul Schrader (‘Taxi Driver’) and Mardik Martin (‘Mean Streets’ ) to write the film script that is loosely based on La Motta’s novel. Raging Bull tells the true story based of Jack La Motta a middleweight boxer whose rage, violence and temper made him king of the ring while on the other hand destroying his life slowly. The greatest demon of all we have to fight is actually deep within all of us.
Andres Gomez2014-02-13
★ 8/10
Impressive Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in a classical Scorsese movie.
CinemaSerf2022-07-22
★ 6/10
Sorry but I was really unimpressed with this tale of the life of legendary boxer Jake La Motta. It's based on his own book, so it can be relied upon to be authentic, but somehow this Martin Scorsese effort just fell flat for me. The usual mix of Robert De Niro (La Motta) with probably the least versatile actor I have ever seen on screen, Joe Pesci, as his brother Joey; Cathy Moriarty as his wife Vickie and an ensemble of Italian American co-stars just reminded me of a very much weaker "Midnight Cowboy" (1969). Sure, that's not about boxing - but I'm not too sure how much this is about it, either. There is precious little by way of ring action - though what there is is excellently and intensively photographed - for the most part it is more of a soap opera, backed up with loads of expletives and a bit of domestic violence that seems to have come to epitomise the attitudes this New York community have for their womenfolk. There is the usual gangland, fight-fixing, shenanigans but somehow it all comes across as remarkably sterile. I don't really rate De Niro as an actor. Like Pesci, he only really seems to have one gear; one style and it all usually involves him playing well to his own roots, armed with a ripe vocabulary and lots of angry tantrums. At times it is shot like a television movie; the black and white imagery is just too clean and pristine. It seems to be trying for a look that places it contemporaneously in the late 1940s, but instead, for me anyway, it came across more as a film out of it's time. I am certain that I am in the minority here; it played to a very full cinema the other night and received applause at the end, but I am afraid I just cannot see what all the fuss is about.