Bloody Mama
1970 · Movie · R · 90 min · ★ 5.5 · 42% critics
In the 1930s, a domineering mother shapes her grown sons into a tight-knit gang, pushing them from petty theft into increasingly dangerous crimes. As they chase money and notoriety through the Depression era, their warped family bonds and reckless impulses turn every job into a volatile, violent gamble.
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Details
- Years
- 1970
- Release date
- 1970-03-24
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 42/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.5/10 (103 votes)
About
You may enjoy this if you want a trashy, high-energy Depression-era outlaw tale with taboo themes and a nasty edge, like Boxcar Bertha; Not for you if you dislike sexual violence, incest hints, or grim, unsympathetic characters.
Pros: wild outlaw energy; bold lead performance; pulpy shock value | Cons: sleazy disturbing content; thin plotting; uneven acting effects
Themes
- prison
- suicide
- rape
- sexual abuse
- gangster
- based on true story
- dysfunctional family
- murder
- bank robbery
- incest
- machine gun
- female gangleader
- +2 more
Cast & crew
Shelley Winters
as 'Ma' Kate Barker
Pat Hingle
as Sam Adams Pendlebury
Don Stroud
as Herman Barker
Diane Varsi
as Mona Gibson
Bruce Dern
as Kevin Dirkman
Clint Kimbrough
as Arthur Barker
Robert De Niro
as Lloyd Barker
Robert Walden
as Fred Barker
Alex Nicol
as George Barker
Pamela Dunlap
as Rembrandt
Directed by Roger Corman