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Features: DVD, Special Edition, Black & White, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Audio Commentary, Documentary, Featurettes, English, Spanish, French Subtitled, 2 Discs
Robert De Niro gives the performance of his career as "Bronx Bull" Jake La Motta, a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty are compelling as the brother who falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and jealousy, and the fifteen-year-old girl who becomes his most prized trophy.
"...tough, compelling, powerfully made..." Halliwell's Film Guide
"The best film of the decade!" Siskel and Ebert
"...brilliantly photographed film of extraordinary power and rare distinction..." The Wall Street Journal
Editor's Note
With RAGING BULL, Martin Scorsese's personal approach to filmmaking is taken to a whole new level. Shooting in a crisp black and white, Scorsese tells the story of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, played with incredible intensity by Oscar winner Robert De Niro. As La Motta rises through the ranks to earn his first shot at the middleweight crown, he falls in love with Vickie (Cathy Moriarty), a gorgeous girl from his Bronx neighborhood. Jake's inability to express his feelings pours out in the ring and eventually takes over his life in his dealings with his brother, Joey (a brilliant Joe Pesci). Irrational jealousy over Vickie, as well as an insatiable appetite, sends him into a downward spiral that costs him his title, his wife, and his relationship with Joey. As the out-of-control fighter, De Niro delivers one of the screen's most unforgettable performances. Pesci is just as intense as Joey, who finally realizes that he is unable to tame his animalistic brother. Cinematographer Michael Chapman shoots the film with a stylish flair that fills the boxing scenes with boundless energy and adds immediacy to the arguments that erupt whenever Jake is outside the ring. Simply put, RAGING BULL is one of American cinema's masterworks.
Plot Summary
Considered by many critics to be the best film of the 1980s, this gritty docudrama about hardheaded prizefighter Jake La Motta is so astonishingly real it seems like the champ's black-and-white home-movie reels have been spliced together. Robert De Niro's Oscar-winning performance is intense and awe inspiring, and Martin Scorsese uses his regular bag of camera tricks to add to the proceedings. The film features a stellar supporting turn by Joe Pesci as La Motta's brother, Joey.
| Features | "La Motta Defends Title" Newsreel Footage | | "The Bronx Bull" Making-Of Documentary | | 3 Audio Commentaries Featuring Director Martin Scorsese, Editor Thelma Schoonmaker, Producer Irwin Winkler, Jake La Motta And More | | 4 Behind-The-Scenes Featurettes | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Stereo; French, Spanish Mono | | De Niro vs. La Motta Shot-by-Shot Comparison | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 2/5/2008 |
| Running Time: 129 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1980 | | Catalog ID: 1007431 | | UPC: 00027616915122 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: B&W |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1981) |  | Robert De Niro, Winner, Best Actor | | Thelma Schoonmaker, Winner, Best Film Editing | |
Golden Globe (1981) | | Robert De Niro, Winner, Best Actor-Drama | |
British Academy Awards (1982) | | Joe Pesci, Winner, Most Outstanding Newcomer To A Leading Film Role | |
Oscar (1981) | | | Martin Scorsese, Nominee, Best Director |
| Memorable Quotes| "I'm not an animal."----Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro) after being thrown in jail on a morals charge at the end of his career |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...A fiercely poetic study of violence. Stunningly shot in black-and-white..." 12/14/1989 p.23New York Times
"RAGING BULL is not simply the greatest boxing movie ever made; Martin Scorsese's 1980 masterpiece is arguably the finest American film released in [that] decade..." 08/04/2000 p.E23 New York Times
"...[Scorsese's] most ambitious film as well as his finest....The performance of [De Niro's] career..."| 11/14/1980 p.C11 Los Angeles Times
"...One of the bloodiest and most beautiful reflections on atonement in the Scorsese canon....It is still one of cinema's most breathtaking films..." 01/05/1990 p.F8 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Pesci's performance is the counterpoint to De Niro's, and its equal; their verbal sparring has a kind of crazy music to it....RAGING BULL is the most painful and heartrending portrait of jealousy in the cinema..." 05/10/1998 p.5 Total Film
"De Niro has gone above and beyond. Yet nothing can match his mesmerising performance as middleweight boxing champ Jake LaMotta..." 03/01/2004 p.5 Premiere
"[A] monumental biopic..." 02/01/2005 p.107 Sight and Sound
"[A] troubling, exhilarating, masterfully made study of self-destructive masculinity." 11/01/2005 p.90 Uncut
Ranked #2 in Uncut's Best DVDs Of 2005 -- "'Ultimate' is, for once, an accurate description." 01/01/2006 p.84-85 Empire
5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t is without a doubt De Niro's ultimate immersion into 'The Method', up there with Brando in ON THE WATERFRONT and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE." 09/01/2007 p.59 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 10 of 10
In a career that has included many fine roles, this is [De Niro's] most outstanding. The level of in - James Berardinelli
Leonard Maltin's Movie And Video Guide 10 of 10
Extraordinarily compelling look at prizefighter Jake La Motta...That such an unappealing man could i - Leonard Maltin
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