Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.

Julianne Moore
as Gloria Bell

John Turturro
as Arnold

Michael Cera
as Peter

Caren Pistorius
as Anne

Brad Garrett
as Dustin Mason

Sean Astin
as Jeremy

Holland Taylor
as Hillary Bell

Jeanne Tripplehorn
as Fiona Mason

Rita Wilson
as Vicky

Chris Mulkey
as Charlie
Peter McGinn
Gloria Bell is first and foremost a character study that may be too subtle and methodical for a viewer who is not in the mood for a slower paced romantic drama. The story this movie tells is similar to plots I have created in a few of the novels I have written. I think of them as "slice of life" ...