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Gloria | 1999 | R | - 4.7.10
Mob mistress Sharon Stone protects a young boy carrying valuable information from her thug friends. Co-starring Jean-Luke Figueroa, Jeremy Northam, Cathy Moriarty, George C. Scott, Mike Starr, Bonnie Bedelia, Barry McEvoy, Don Billett, Jerry Dean, Tony Dibenedetto, Teddy Atlas, Bobby Cannavale, Sarita Choudhury, Miriam Colon and Desiree F. Casado.
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Some sexual innuendo and a few kisses (one is passionate). Five men are forced to undress and we see their bare posteriors. One woman often wears cleavage and leg revealing clothes.
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VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A man shoots a woman (we see blood on her clothing); another man holds her very bloody hand before he's shot. We see a dead man with a bloody gunshot wound on his forehead. It's implied that two women are shot. A news clip about a shooting shows several covered bodies being wheeled out of a building. A man slaps a woman, a woman knees a man in the groin, and a man punches and repeatedly kicks another. A man grabs onto a moving car and is slammed into a parked car (he presumably dies). During a car chase, a car crashes into a wall (we see blood splatter on the windshield) and a car crashes through a barrier (the passengers are fine, though). Threatening with guns and several instances of people shooting at other people.
LANGUAGE 10 - Nearly 50 F-words, many scatological references, several anatomical references, lots of mild obscenities and many insults.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Organized crime, murder, loss of family, prison, responsibility.
MESSAGE - A tough and independent woman still has the capacity to love.
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