Raging Bull

Martin Scorsese · 1980 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Jake LaMotta punches his way up the middleweight rankings of the 1940s while the mob makes plain he gets no title shot without paying for it. Outside the ring he turns the same suspicion on his wife and his brother, and settles it the same way. Jealousy taken as penance.

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• alludes to ↑ On the Waterfront
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