Stars: Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, George C. Scott, Cathy Moriarty, Bonnie Bedelia

Director: Sidney Lumet

Summary: Gloria has spent three years in prison for something she didn't do. Tony has promised a large sum of money to Gloria for taking the rap for him but on her release he refuses to pay up. Gloria takes the money at gun point, but now she's in trouble and must fight for her life...

GLORIA is a Sidney Lumet-directed story about a woman who is looking to renew her lease on life. After finally completing her prison sentence, Gloria (an exuberant Sharon Stone) is back on the streets of New York. Somehow she becomes responsible for Nicky (Jean-Luke Figueroa), a little boy who is the only survivor of a mob attack on his family, and together the twosome try to untangle a complicated mafia crime web. GLORIA is a remake of the 1990 John Cassavetes film of the same title.

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Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Lifewas largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). Capra's triumph isto acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming--in the teary-eyed final reel--his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. It's a Wonderful Lifewas not a big hit on its initial release, and it won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated); but it continues to weave a special magic. --Robert Horton

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Featurette, Trailer, Behind The Scenes
Year:	1999
Release Date:	April 24, 2000
Runtime:	103 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	E D V 9056
Keywords:	General, Wide, Screen, Gloria, Drama
Genre:	Drama