IMDb plot summary: After serving three years in prison covering for her gangster boyfriend, Kevin, Gloria returns to New York City for the money she was promised. Inside Kevin's base of operations, she finds 7 year old Nicky, whose family has been killed.
Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring Sharon Stone, Jean-Luek Figueroa, and Jeremy Northam.
Gloria is a Sidney Lumet movie starring Sharon Stone as the titular Gloria, a mobster's girlfriend who just got out of prison. She goes back to her boyfriend, only to find herself in the middle of a complicated situation involving a young boy. The boy's father had evidence of widespread corruption, and before he was murdered, he passed this evidence onto his son, and now the mobsters are threatening the boy's life, until Gloria steps in to try to get him to safety. This is a later film by Lumet and definitely one of his lower-tiered ones. It doesn't deliver very well on either an emotional or an action/thriller level, though Stone does have a few truly funny line deliveries that would be funnier in a different movie. It just all kind of plays out in an uninteresting way, and to be honest, it's hard even to scrounge up enough to say about it. It feels like a lazy effort that anyone could have directed, which is disappointing, given how great Lumet could be.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Gloria < The Misfits
Gloria < The Balloonatic
Gloria > Move Over, Darling
Gloria < Pete's Dragon
Gloria > Jane Eyre (1997)
Gloria > Rancho Notorious
Gloria < Bullitt
Gloria > Shampoo
Gloria > The Formula
Gloria < Gone With the Wind
Gloria < Eddie the Eagle
Gloria < Week End
Final spot: #2940 out of 3576, or 18%.
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