Raging Bull - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  A woman wearing a thin gown is instructed by a man to remove his pants and underwear as well as her panties. The camera focuses on her closely as she kisses him and his body. The man then stops her and pours cold water down his underwear to calm himself down. This scene lasts over 4 minutes, but no nudity is seen other than the man's bare chest.

  A married man and a teenage girl begin kissing in a bedroom and it is implied they go to the bed and have sex, but this is not shown.

  Frequent and quite explicit conversations regarding sex throughout. There's no nudity or actual sex shown though.

  In a comedy show, Jake LaMotta rubs a microphone on a woman's butt, and says, "Sorry, I just wanted to see what a microphone feels like on a sexy girls butt.", then Jake proceeds to kiss the woman's revealed breast and cleavage.

  A man is paranoid that his wife is sleeping with other men.

• Violence

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  Jake LaMotta beats up his own brother, Joey LaMotta in front of his family. Graphic.

  A fight breaks out in the crowd of a boxing match with punches thrown, a woman is trampled, and a man's body is tossed in the air.

  Don't let the black and white cinematography fool you, it still on of the most brutal movies ever made.

  We briefly see a man cleaning another man's bloody mouth after a fight. Blood is shown but it is easy to miss.

  Though the movie is captured in black and white, it decide to take the violence to the extremes.

  Jake La Motta has numerous boxing matches; punches are thrown however there is little to moderate blood in most. However this is not always the case.

  In a boxing match, a fighter beats another against the ropes; we see heavy swelling and some blood on his face. Blood and sweat also splatter over the judges.

  In another, a boxer violently beats his opponent. It's mostly bloodless.

  A character wraps a piece of cloth around his knuckles and hits another character in the face multiple times. The man being punched asked to be. Some blood is seen on his face.

• Profanity

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  "C*ck" is said once in a vulgar manner.

  "C*nt" is said three or four times

  "Faggot" and "fag" are said 5 times. "Queer" is once.

  "Piss" is said once.

  "D*mn" is said once and "godd*mn" is said twice.

  "B*stard" is said twice.

  "B*tch" is said 4 times.

  "Sh*t" is said 6 times.

  "H*ll" is said twice.

  "Ass" is said 8 times.

• Intense Scenes

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  The boxing matches are hyper-stylized, and often yield bloody results.

  The prison scene is quite disturbing.

  The main character has violent tendencies and a self-destructive nature.

  Quite a few heated arguments between a man and his wife.

  The film is filled with extremely intense scenes of verbal and physical violence.

  The scenes of violence will be uncomfortable and intense for sensitive viewers.

  The main character has violent tendencies and a self-destructive nature. Quite a few heated arguments between a man and his wife.