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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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Reviews for How Stella Got Her Groove Back
The "Groove" is on the move in Sullivan's ethnically snappy and exotic May-December romancer. Bassett and Diggs make for a sizzling couple
There's only one thing missing from this story, and it's the main ingredient: conflict.
Gives Angela Bassett the full star treatment, and she gives it right back.
There is insufficient chemistry, more tension and fighting than romance, and no epiphanal moment to demonstrate that Stella has indeed gotten her groove back.
The movie meanders on and on, like a bad sexual dream, until you finally wake up mumbling: Stella, please: leave that groove thang alone.
This fine and funny film proves that a love that nurtures fills an emptiness that nothing else can fill.
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