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GLORIA TRIES TO GROW HER GROOVE AGAIN

GLORIA TRIES TO GROW HER GROOVE AGAIN
By Jacqueline Smith

GENRE: Crime, Comedy
LOGLINE:

After becoming fed-up with their throw away attitudes, GLORIA, a sexually curious woman about to turn
sixty, soon realizes that killing men from dating sites is much more of a turn-on than
romancing them.

A small village bears witness to dark and absurd murder in this thrilling comedy.

SYNOPSIS:

Gloria Tries to Grow her Groove Again SynopsisGloria has a call with a married dating prospect RICHIE, but is interrupted by the sudden appearance

of her disapproving son, KENNETH. She shares news of her not so mysterious sparkly-ring with

neighbour SAMANTHA, and newly organised date with Naturist Man BILL, who, while at the Italian

restaurant on their date he behaves like a bit of an octopus. Ignoring Samantha’s bid to help her

escape the date, she invites him home.

Naturist man Bill, gets right down to it by disrobing and cajoles Gloria to do the same, but she’s having

second thoughts. When he lunges for her, she hits him with a glass and kills him. Gloria’s friend,

Samantha is called on for help to dispose of the body and they manage to hide it in the compost bin at

the local coup. Friend PAMELA is informed and wants in on the adventure. Gloria has another dating

site messaging encounter with sexy married man, Richie and is joined by Samantha and Pamela for the

craic, but only until the conversation moves to the Skype, where they make plans to meet. Gloria

discovers just how much the thought of Bill’s death adds to her excitement during their Skype call.

Having made contact with BOB, the Campervan man, Gloria arranges to meet with him at the café, not

le2ng on that Samantha and Pamela are at another table watching the proceedings. Gloria’s son,

Kenneth also unexpectedly interrupts again and the friends have to avoid him seeing them. Bob is not

fazed by him. When Kenneth leaves, he invites Gloria to go to a CamperVan festival in the countryside.

Then Pam and Sam make themselves known to Bob and get an invite to the weekend trip. When Bob

leaves, the three women plan what they’d like to do to Bob before killing him.

Bob picks Gloria up from her home and they travel to the East coast. The festival is busy by the me

they arrive, with lots of Campervans and caravans parked and their owners ready to party. Pam and

Sam soon arrive and are introduced to a couple of guys JOE and BRIAN from a few Campervans along.

A6er the party, her and Bob head back to his Campervan. Once she’s seduced and drugged him, Pam

and Sam come knocking and join her in trying to perform sexual acts on him, but he’s not as

unconscious as they thought and wakes just as they’re ge2ng the knives out to finish him off. He

manages to escape from the van because they hadn’t tied him up. Having had so much to drink, they

struggle to go a6er him and are left wondering if he’ll manage to report them to the other van owners

and the police.

Having got a lift from Samantha, Gloria arrives home still in a panic about where Bob might be.

Kenneth soon appears at her house not long a6er and she reluctantly asks him to help, without giving

him the full details. Samantha and Pamela come round and are annoyed when Gloria tells them she’s

asked him. Kenneth overhears their argument, finding out the truth about why Bob is missing and

what happened to Bill. To their surprise he wants in on dealing with Bob when they find him. Kenneth

gets on the internet to try tracking his whereabouts from the number Bob gave Gloria. He tracks the

phone to Bob’s house and all three women start to really panic. Kenneth wants to pay him a visit.

Gloria receives a bouquet of flowers from Richie with the details of where they will meet. Sam and

Pam have decided they don’t want to hang around to wait for the police, discussing disappearing

before anyone comes looking for them. Gloria avoids mentioning the getaway plan to Kenneth, who is

distractedly driving with thoughts of what he’ll do to Bob when he gets to his house. Gloria decides to

try the number on the card with the flowers from Richie, to organise her own getaway.

Pam and Sam make their plans to disappear, hoping Gloria will join them before midnight. Gloria’s new

paramour, Richie, quickly responds to her call and offers to take her away from it all, not realising why

she’s in such a hurry. Kenneth calls round as Gloria is packing her case. He’s angry that he missed Bob

at his house and frustrated about locating his whereabouts again. An argument ensues when he

demands to know where Gloria’s going and she refuses to tell him. As he attempts to grab her, Gloria

hits him with another glass and he collapses just like Bill did. She rushes away to meet Richie, not sure

if Kenneth is dead or alive.

Bob manages to make it to the police station, informing them of the scene he escaped and giving

Gloria’s details. The police arrive at Gloria’s house just as Pam and Sam drive up to collect Gloria and

are taken in for questioning due to their panicked and guilty behaviour when the police fail to get

entry to the house. Kenneth is sll there undiscovered, while Pam and Sam struggle to come up with a

story, especially a6er Bob almost recognises them at the station, but for having his back to them while

in another room. They eventually get bail and don’t hesitate to try to getaway once more, angry at the

lack of response from Gloria to their calls.

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