Gloria (1999)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Writers (WGA):

John Cassavetes (1980 screenplay)
Steve Antin (screenplay)

Release Date:

22 January 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

Gloria. Big mouth. Big attitude. But who knew she had a big heart.

Plot:

Sharon Stone plays a street-wise, middle-aged moll standing up against the mobs, all of which is complicated...

Plot Keywords:

Car Chase | Church | Police Corruption | Profanity | Silencer

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Sharon Stone	...	Gloria
Jean-Luke Figueroa	...	Nicky
Jeremy Northam	...	Kevin
Cathy Moriarty	...	Diane
George C. Scott	...	Ruby
Mike Starr	...	Sean
Bonnie Bedelia	...	Brenda
Barry McEvoy	...	Terry
Don Billett	...	Raymond
Jerry Dean	...	Mickey
Tony DiBenedetto	...	Zach
Teddy Atlas	...	Ian
Bobby Cannavale	...	Jack
Sarita Choudhury	...	Angela
Miriam Colon	...	Maria

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Iceland:12 | USA:R (certificate #35555) | South Korea:12 | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | Spain:13 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | Singapore:PG | Philippines:PG-13

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

George C. Scott's last feature-length movie.

Quotes:

Nicholas 'Nicky' Nuñez: I like sleeping with you.
Gloria: You're not the first guy to tell me that.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) (TV)

Soundtrack:

A San Francisco

not the worst film ever, but it's a redundant effort, a seminal New York director remaking a New York director's film, and not even his best

Gloria was originally a film by John Cassavetes. I could understand any serious filmmaker wanting to take a stab at material that came out of one of the kings of independent American film. But with Gloria it's a story that could have been told by a lessor filmmaker, a story that might've been told anyway had Cassavetes not jumped on it first. With Sidney Lumet's version, there's not too much of a difference except having in Sharon Stone in the Gena Rowlands part. That's not the main issue to have with the film though, as she is a fine actress. It's the fact that it's just not entertaining, that the connection between Stone and the little boy she saves is not strong or believable ("smoke when you're 10" is a line that stuck with me, sarcastic but not all that funny), and the whole gang story surrounding them also just sits like a lump. There's nothing that Lumet, with all of his skills in his own right, can do to uplift the material or present it in a manner that's fresh or absorbing. I'd say if you had to pick one go for the original. Then check out the rest of the films by Cassavetes, and with Lumet as well. It's a New York story for the birds.