Tag: Joe Pesci

‘Raging Bull’ is a 1980 searing, black-and-white biographical portrait of Jake LaMotta Directed by Martin Scorsese, the real-life middleweight boxing champion whose rise and fall in and out of the ring is marked by violence, jealousy, self-destruction, and emotional torment. Set primarily in the 1940s and 1950s, the film opens with Jake LaMotta (played by…