How Stella Got Her Groove Back

How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

Genres - Drama, Romance, Comedy  |   Sub-Genres - Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama  |   Release Date - Aug 14, 1998 (USA)  |   Run Time - 125 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Bhob Stewart

Terry McMillan and Ron Bass wrote this screenplay based on McMillan's semi-autobiographical best-selling novel (over 2,000,000 copies in print before the release of this film). San Francisco stockbroker Stella (Angela Bassett), a 40-year-old divorcee, has a nice Marin County home and an 11-year-old son, Quincy (Michael J. Pagan). With Quincy off to see his dad, Stella and her best friend Delilah (Whoopi Goldberg) vacation in Jamaica, where she meets sexy, good-looking Winston Shakespeare (Taye Diggs). He's the man of her dreams in every way except one -- he's half her age. Even so, a romance develops. Grammy Award-winning songwriters Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis supervised the film's music and produced the R&B-slanted soundtrack album. Shown at the 1998 Urbanworld Film Festival (NY).

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Keywords

friendship, Jamaica, Jamaican [nationality], May-December-romance, single-parent, vacation, stockbroker

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High Production Values