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starring: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, John Adames, Tony Knesichdirected by: John Cassavetes
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302799118
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302799112
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: January 19, 1999
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 1329
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
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Even a genre film looks different in the hands of writer-director John Cassavetes. In this one, he casts a wonderfully hard-boiled Gena Rowlands as the title character: a former Mob moll who picked up a few tricks along the way. She becomes the unexpected guardian of a young boy (John Adames) who has just seen his parents wiped out. Worse, the Mob is after him as well, seeking a book he has--and the overdue fine is a killer. Though Cassavetes lets his actors have a little too much rein, it pays off in the complex--and surprisingly funny--performance by Rowlands as an unlikely nanny who discovers that, though she is an unwilling bodyguard, she actually learns to care for the tough little guy she's trying to keep out of harm's way. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Gloria
John Cassavetes is one of the great directors and this is one of my favorites with good gritty acting by Gena Rowlands and candid urban scenes.
Rating: - Gena Rowlands shines, but the plot stumbles
This movie is worth watching for the pure joy of watching Gena Rowlands kicking butt and taking names. The movie starts out strong. The mafia closes in around a family who live down the hall from Gloria. The father works for the mafia but has been disclosing information to the FBI. As men with guns appear outside their apartment building and the family desperately realizes they are doomed, the mother convinces Gloria to take her son into her apartment so that he can be saved. The family is killed, ... Read More
Rating:  - My All-Time Favorite
Who knew Cassavette's could make an action film, and a funny one at that? I love "Minnie and Moskowitz." I admire "A Woman Under the Influence,' and I weep over "A Child Is Waiting." But "Gloria" is still the best work Rowlands and Cassevettes did together. In my formative years, only five women got to pack heat: Pam Grier, Charlie's Angels and Angie Dickenson (ah "Police Woman" ...the memories). Then came "Gloria" in 1980. Critics at the time nicknamed this film "Dirty Harriet" for the multiple stadoffs ... Read More
Rating:  - Eh...
I am a huge Cassavetes fan but I cant say this one did it for me, and I dont believe it really does Cassavetes any Justice.
Watch this one last, the story has alot of corny part. Cheesy lines from the young actor who, gets better as the film goes along, but almost completely ruins the first half of the film with his terrible, and i mean TERRIBLE, acting.
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Rating: - One of the best in the Gangster Genre
Gloria remains one of director John Cassavetes most accessable films. It is also his most commercially successful, being one of 1980's biggest hits at the Box Office.
Cassavates cast his wife, Gena Rowlands in the title role of a former Mafiosa Moll trying to get on with a life, in a post Mob existence. This, however, is turned upside down when she finds herself with a six year old boy whose family has just been wiped out by the very Mob with whom she used to consort. Realising the magnitude of the ... Read More
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