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Released Year: 1998
Runtime: 124 minutes
Directors: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Writers: Terry McMillan
Casts: Victor Garber, Angela Bassett, Barry Shabaka Henley, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Taye Diggs, Glynn Turman, Lou Myers, Steve Danton, James Pickens Jr., Regina King, Lee Weaver, Art Metrano, Richard Lawson, Suzzanne Douglas, Michael J. Pagan, David C. Waite, Carl Lumbly, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, Elisabeth Granli, Jan Citron, Fern Ward, Philip Casnoff, Phina Oruche, Sicily Johnson, Denise Hunt, Lisa Hanna, D'Army Bailey, Tenny Miller, Andrew Palmer, Harold Dawkins, Kenneth Buckford, Simon Street, Craig Blake, Elly McGuire, Selma McPherson, Lucinda Chrisman, Leroy Edwards III
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Reviews
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Austin Chronicle -
The filmmakers go to obvious pains to add a bit of nutritive value to their sweet, frothy confection.
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ReelViews -
For once, with How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Hollywood offers a love story that concentrates on the simple nuances of the romance rather than smothering us in an overly- melodramatic narrative featuring old boyfriends, jealousy, and hard-to-swallow misunderstandings.
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Rolling Stone -
Whether you regard Stella's getting her groove back as a feminist battle cry or as a silly wish-fulfillment fantasy, the movie delivers guilt-free escapism about pretty people having wicked-hot fun in pretty places.
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The New York Times -
The movie, adapted by Terry McMillan from her semi-autobiographical novel, is pointedly boundary-breaking in its positive portrayal of a May-September relationship between a younger man and an older woman.
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Chicago Sun-Times -
How Stella Got Her Groove Back tries its best to turn a paperback romance into a relationship worth making a movie about, but fails.
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love - even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
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Information
Released Year: 1998
Runtime: 124 minutes
Directors: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Writers: Terry McMillan
Casts: Victor Garber, Angela Bassett, Barry Shabaka Henley, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Taye Diggs, Glynn Turman, Lou Myers, Steve Danton, James Pickens Jr., Regina King, Lee Weaver, Art Metrano, Richard Lawson, Suzzanne Douglas, Michael J. Pagan, David C. Waite, Carl Lumbly, Phyllis Yvonne Stickney, Elisabeth Granli, Jan Citron, Fern Ward, Philip Casnoff, Phina Oruche, Sicily Johnson, Denise Hunt, Lisa Hanna, D'Army Bailey, Tenny Miller, Andrew Palmer, Harold Dawkins, Kenneth Buckford, Simon Street, Craig Blake, Elly McGuire, Selma McPherson, Lucinda Chrisman, Leroy Edwards III
Storyline
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love - even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.
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Reviews
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Austin Chronicle -
The filmmakers go to obvious pains to add a bit of nutritive value to their sweet, frothy confection.
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ReelViews -
For once, with How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Hollywood offers a love story that concentrates on the simple nuances of the romance rather than smothering us in an overly- melodramatic narrative featuring old boyfriends, jealousy, and hard-to-swallow misunderstandings.
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Rolling Stone -
Whether you regard Stella's getting her groove back as a feminist battle cry or as a silly wish-fulfillment fantasy, the movie delivers guilt-free escapism about pretty people having wicked-hot fun in pretty places.
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The New York Times -
The movie, adapted by Terry McMillan from her semi-autobiographical novel, is pointedly boundary-breaking in its positive portrayal of a May-September relationship between a younger man and an older woman.
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Chicago Sun-Times -
How Stella Got Her Groove Back tries its best to turn a paperback romance into a relationship worth making a movie about, but fails.
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Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love - even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love - even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love - even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love - even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.