How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Unlucky-in-love stockbroker Stella (Angela Bassett) jets to Jamaica with her gal pal Delilah (Whoopi Goldberg) for some fun in the sun. There 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.
15 September 1954, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
2 January 1971, Newark, New Jersey, USA
3 August 1949, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 April 1930, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
26 September 1935, Cabin Creek, West Virginia, USA
22 September 1936, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
16 March 1949, London, Ontario, Canada
1 October 1985, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
2 September 1954, Tuba City, Arizona, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
14 August 1951, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
29 November 1941, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
16 August 1958, New York City, New York, USA
13 November 1955, New York City, New York, USA
7 March 1947, Loma Linda, California, USA
September 8, 1980 in Kingston, Jamaica
26 February 1965, Biddeford, Maine, USA
October 15, 2002
Gives Angela Bassett the full star treatment, and she gives it right back.
May 11, 2001
Delivers guilt-free escapism about pretty people having wicked-hot fun in pretty places.
January 01, 2000
The issues that arise from such a May/September male/female pairing are sensitively and intelligently explored.
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.
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
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.
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.
February 08, 2003
There's only one thing missing from this story, and it's the main ingredient: conflict.
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
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.
March 05, 2002
Stella's groove, like the film itself, doesn't run deep.
January 01, 2000
All formula gloss, a romance that tackles some difficult issues by missing them altogether.
