Glorias, The

[Opens Sept. 30 via streaming on Amazon Prime Video or you can buy it "on digital" platforms.] A moving, timely, well-acted, poignant, inspirational, factually based, intermittently choppy, star-dotted (Bette Midler, Janelle MonĂ¡e, Lorraine Toussaint, and Kimberly Guerrero), 139-minute biographical film told in flashbacks and based on Gloria Steinem's 2015 novel My Life on the Road that chronicles the smart, hardworking, feminist, strong-willed journalist and women's activist Gloria Steinem (Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander) while growing up as a child (Ryan Kira Armstrong) and teenager (Lulu Wilson) with her parents (Timothy Hutton and Enid Graham) in 1940s Ohio to her rise as a worldwide influence on the women's liberation movement.
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