Cast : Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Director: Martin Scorsese.
Format : VCD
Martin Scorsese's 1980 Raging Bull has been identified in recent years as one
of America's greatest films, and understandably so. Robert De Niro won a richly
deserved Academy Award for portraying fighter Jake La Motta, an extremely difficult
New York boxer who has to contend with his own temper and jealousy, as well
as the Mob and the boxing establishment. Joe Pesci is very good as La Motta's
long-suffering brother, and Cathy Moriarty made a strong screen debut as the
brawler's glamorous wife. The highly contrasted black-and- white film has a
richness, texture, and even sensuality about it that, together with Scorsese's
amazing editing (with his Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker) and De Niro's
focused, tragic performance, is unforgettable.
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