Movie · Thriller · Action

Gloria (Gina Rodriguez) drives to Tijuana, Mexico, to visit her best friend who is competing in the local “Miss Baja” beauty pageant. During a night out, her friend is abducted and Gloria finds herself a pawn in a dangerous game being played by the CIA, the DEA, and a charismatic yet ruthless cartel kingpin. Finding a power she never knew she had, Gloria plays one organization against the other as she seeks to rescue her friend. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness and strength. This edge-of-your-seat action thriller is being hailed as a “kick-ass origin story for a new kind of action hero” (Peter Debruge, Variety).

2019 · 1h 44m

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Gloria (Gina Rodriguez) drives to Tijuana, Mexico, to visit her best friend who is competing in the local “Miss Baja” beauty pageant. During a night out, her friend is abducted and Gloria finds herself a pawn in a dangerous game being played by the CIA, the DEA, and a charismatic yet ruthless cartel kingpin. Finding a power she never knew she had, Gloria plays one organization against the other as she seeks to rescue her friend. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness and strength. This edge-of-your-seat action thriller is being hailed as a “kick-ass origin story for a new kind of action hero” (Peter Debruge, Variety).

COMMON SENSE

Female-driven crime action has violence, swearing, drugs.

TOMATOMETER
Average 4.6
Reviews 114
Fresh 25
Rotten 89

Information

Studio
Columbia Pictures; Canana Films
Released
2019
Run Time
1 hr 44 min
Rated
PG-13 for sequences of gun violence, sexual and drug content, thematic material, and language.
Regions of Origin
United States, Mexico
© 2019 Canana Films; Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)

Languages

Original Audio
English, Spanish, French
Audio

English (AD, AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), English (United Kingdom) , Arabic , Bulgarian , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Dutch , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Hungarian , Italian (Italy) , Japanese (Japan) , Korean , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Russian , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen, to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.