1980 Movie
Out of catalog
Dir. John Cassavetes · United States of America · English, Spanish
She's tough… but she sides with the little guy. And she's out to beat the mob at their own game.
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
"The film grows in power-it's unnerving and reassuring at the same time."
— David Denby
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"Writer-director Sebastin Lelio, whose fourth feature this is, has a confident way of parceling out exuberance and melancholy in a setting of mundane everyday realism."
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