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How Stella Got Her Groove Back

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How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

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Reviews Counted:46

Fresh:23

Rotten:23

Average Rating:5.5/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: While vacationing in Jamaica, successful San Francisco stock broker Stella meets and falls for a dashing, and much younger, islander, Winston Shakespeare. Their romance forces her to reevaluate her... While vacationing in Jamaica, successful San Francisco stock broker Stella meets and falls for a dashing, and much younger, islander, Winston Shakespeare. Their romance forces her to reevaluate her concepts of love and sex, as well as work and motherhood. Based on the best-selling novel by Terry McMillan. [More]

Starring: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Regina King, Whoopi Goldberg

Starring: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Regina King, Whoopi Goldberg

Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Screenwriter: Terry McMillan, Ronald Bass
Producer: Deborah Schindler
Composer: Michel Colombier

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Lori Hoffman
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Frank Swietek
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10/13/03
Rebecca Murray
Rebecca Murray
About.com

The "Groove" is on the move in Sullivan's ethnically snappy and exotic May-December romancer. Bassett and Diggs make for a sizzling couple

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06/07/03
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
TheWorldJournal.com

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05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

There's only one thing missing from this story, and it's the main ingredient: conflict.

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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Shannon J. Harvey
Shannon J. Harvey
Sunday Times (Australia)

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01/10/03
Nick Davis
Nick Davis
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Gives Angela Bassett the full star treatment, and she gives it right back.

Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | comment Comment
10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer

There is insufficient chemistry, more tension and fighting than romance, and no epiphanal moment to demonstrate that Stella has indeed gotten her groove back.

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06/05/02
Christine James
Christine James
Boxoffice Magazine

The movie meanders on and on, like a bad sexual dream, until you finally wake up mumbling: Stella, please: leave that groove thang alone.

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04/12/02
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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03/24/02
Boston Phoenix

Stella's groove, like the film itself, doesn't run deep.

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03/05/02
Nina Caplan
Nina Caplan
Sight and Sound

This fine and funny film proves that a love that nurtures fills an emptiness that nothing else can fill.

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03/02/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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