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02/09/06
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:23
Rotten:23
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: While vacationing in Jamaica, successful San Francisco stock broker Stella meets and falls for a dashing, and much younger, islander, Winston Shakespeare. Their romance forces her to reevaluate her... [More]
Starring: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Regina King, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Reviews for How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Top CriticFrankly, this is just like a very average TV movie except the cast is more expensive and the stunning Bassett glides through with inviolable class.
01/01/00
Top CriticStella's groove, like the film itself, doesn't run deep.
03/05/02
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04/09/05
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01/01/00
There is insufficient chemistry, more tension and fighting than romance, and no epiphanal moment to demonstrate that Stella has indeed gotten her groove back.
06/05/02
A snickering, boring, and utterly predictable movie that runs over two hours.
01/01/00
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09/08/05
There's no tension, sexual or otherwise (even during the love scenes: it was remarkable).
01/01/00
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07/03/05
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03/22/04
A strong cast and solid tech credits fail to make the relationship believable.
01/01/00
Stella comes straight from the 'designer problems' school of screenwriting, a genre in which stories are built around wealthy, gorgeous people who have to create their own miseries in order for anything remotely dramatic to occur.
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05/14/03
It features so much in the way of awkward and contrived situations that even an extremely talented cast nearly flounders.
01/01/00
There's only one thing missing from this story, and it's the main ingredient: conflict.
02/08/03
The movie meanders on and on, like a bad sexual dream, until you finally wake up mumbling: Stella, please: leave that groove thang alone.
04/12/02
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