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4/13/2013

Gloria (1980)

Mob accountant turns snitch and gets his family whacked, but not before they shoo their young son off with a neighbor. The neighbor is pretty mobbed up herself, but grudgingly starts to feel responsible for and affectionate toward the kid. The kid takes a little while longer to warm up, but when he does it borders on inappropriate (at one point, I’m pretty sure he was propositioning the 40ish Gloria in a flophouse bed).

Just an OK movie that could’ve been pretty good if anyone other than Rowlands as Gloria could act in the thing.

C+

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