‘Raging Bull’ Was a Punch to the Gut for Ray Lamotta

It’s hard to fathom what you would need to do with your life for it to be interesting enough that one day, along with countless moviegoers, you’d have an opportunity to see it acted out on a movie screen.

Of course, there are a select few out there who have actually gotten to see this happen.

However, usually the person being featured has long passed away and never had an opportunity to see how he/she was portrayed.

This was not the case for professional boxer Jake Lamotta, who in 1980 got to watch Robert De Niro play him in the movie Raging Bull, the story about his life, and the film shook him to his core.

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