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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305203513 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 6305203512 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: May 25, 1999 Running Time: 124 minutes Sales Rank: 27809 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: August 14, 1998
Amazon.com essential video: Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel, How Stella Got Her Groove Back stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mom whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. Sparks fly when Bassett meets a 20-year-old stud (Taye Diggs) who has an ambivalent career path but a great body and lots of sexual energy to burn. After some prodding by Goldberg's warm-funny secondary character, Bassett gets it on with the fellow--and proceeds to worry about what she's doing with a man half her age. The film is most enjoyable in its sunny, exotic early scenes and becomes more formulaic once the unlikely couple transports their will-we-stay-together-or-won't-we tensions back to the Big Apple. But director Kevin Rodney Sullivan goes out of his way to make a movie unabashedly thick with fantasy and wish-fulfillment for female audiences (it's Diggs who reveals a lot more flesh than the regal Bassett). This is a Saturday-night movie all around. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - LOVE
If you like love and the adventure of love this is the movie to see. It has everything great actors, comedy, love, family issues and tragedy.
Rating: - Great Relaxful Movie
I LUV this movie. The beach is my favorite place and when I watch this it takes me back there. It is a good relaxful movie. The only part I don't like is when her best friend dies. That part I fast forward. I really don't see what they couldn't have left it out. It would have been a great movie without it. All in all it is a good movie. Some really funny parts :)
Rating: - Great Movie!
Great Movie! I am glad to have it as part of my collection.
Rating: - Delightful
Sweet, funny and a romantic movie. You can fall in love and start a new at any age. Life doesn't end when you turn forty.
Rating: - Wasn't what I expected...
This film was not what I expected. It was so plain. I was about ready to turn it off.
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