How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

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Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rating: R
Release Date: Aug 14, 1998
Running Time: 124 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Stella, a divorced Black woman in her 40s takes some time off work and travels to Jamaica while her son spends time with his father. While she is successful in her high-powered job, her love life is non-existant and her friend Delilah persuades her to take a rare vacation in order to relax. There she meets and falls in love with Winston, who is half her age. When Winston takes a time-consuming job, Stella returns home, only to discover she has lost her job. She returns to Jamaica, finding that Winston is in fact much richer than he has let on, but is then called to New York, where Delilah is ill. Winston follows her to New York and the two try to decide if their relationship can work.
cast + crew
Delilah
Vanessa
Winston Shakespeare
Chantel
Nate
screenplay
Novel as Source Material
Screenplay
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
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December 8, 2000
She's forty; he's twenty. Can buppie heroine Stella (Angela Bassett), a single mom with a draining, high-paying job as a stockbroker in San Francisco, find happiness with Winston (Taye Diggs), a stud she finds on vacation in Jamaica? So much for plot. Novelist Terry McMillan turned her own holiday romance with a younger man into best-selling fiction. There's no reason why she won't strike a chord again with this film, co-written with Ron Bass, who also collaborated on the script of McMillan's Wa Continued