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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Stella Payne is a very successful stockbroker in her 40s and raised her son Quincy. She lives in Marin County, California, her best friend from college, persuaded her to take a holiday. To Jamaica. While filled with the beauty of the island, she encounters a beautiful young man, Winston Shakespeare, 20 years younger. Her quest for a thriving romantic relationship forces Stella to take a personal inventory of her life and try to find a balance between her desire for love and companionship and responsibilities as a mother and executive supervisor.
26 October 1954, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
16 March 1949, London, Ontario, Canada
15 January 1971, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
14 August 1951, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
3 August 1949, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
31 January 1947, New York City, New York, USA
March 02, 2002
This fine and funny film proves that a love that nurtures fills an emptiness that nothing else can fill.
January 01, 2000
The issues that arise from such a May/September male/female pairing are sensitively and intelligently explored.
January 01, 2000
All formula gloss, a romance that tackles some difficult issues by missing them altogether.
March 05, 2002
Stella's groove, like the film itself, doesn't run deep.
October 15, 2002
Gives Angela Bassett the full star treatment, and she gives it right back.
February 08, 2003
There's only one thing missing from this story, and it's the main ingredient: conflict.
May 11, 2001
Delivers guilt-free escapism about pretty people having wicked-hot fun in pretty places.
June 05, 2002
There is insufficient chemistry, more tension and fighting than romance, and no epiphanal moment to demonstrate that Stella has indeed gotten her groove back.
February 14, 2001
Stella may be frothy and paper-thin, but it's also another great success for star Angela Bassett, who transforms the film into an infomercial for her considerable abilities.
January 01, 2000
I'm not denying that a 40-year- old woman might be self-conscious about going around with someone this young. But the subject isn't interesting or provocative enough to sustain an entire movie.
April 12, 2002
The movie meanders on and on, like a bad sexual dream, until you finally wake up mumbling: Stella, please: leave that groove thang alone.
June 07, 2003
The "Groove" is on the move in Sullivan's ethnically snappy and exotic May-December romancer. Bassett and Diggs make for a sizzling couple