# Gloria (1980)

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**Runtime**: 122 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: John Cassavetes
**Written by**: John Cassavetes
**Starring**: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, John Adames, Tony Knesich, Gregory Cleghorne

> *She's tough… but she sides with the little guy. And she's out to beat the mob at their own game.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A cracked window frame in a Queens tenement. A child’s shoe on the stoop, still damp with rain. Gloria, a woman who keeps her shotgun loaded and her emotions closer, takes in the orphaned boy—then flees with him into subway tunnels and flickering neon, clutching a ledger no one should read. Cassavetes shoots their flight like a breath held too long.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, raw

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