Synopsis
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the perfect mother-daughter pair.
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Cast
- Bette MidlerStella Claire
- John GoodmanEd Munn
- Trini AlvaradoJenny Claire
- Stephen CollinsStephen Dallas
- Marsha MasonJanice Morrison
- Eileen BrennanMrs. Wilkerson
- Linda HartDebbie Whitman
- Ben StillerJim Uptegrove
- William McNamaraPat Robbins
- John BellBob Morrison
Recommandations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Stella is the kind of movie they used to call a tearjerker, and we might as well go ahead and still call it that, because all around me at the sneak preview people were blowing noses and sort of softly catching their breath - you know, the way you do when you're having a great time. - 60
The New York Times
Ms. Midler's performance manages to be both involving and wildly inconsistent. The story is so full of holes that both she and Ms. Alvarado sometimes experience full personality changes from scene to scene. - 50
Empire
Erman could have made a movie that left the Bette Midler stereotype in the eighties where it belonged, but he didn't. Great if you're a Bette fan, somewhat trying if you're not, though thankfully some of the sheer hamminess has been dulled with time. - 40
Time Out
Robert Getchell's script milks the story for maximum tears, but wrestles unsuccessfully with the inherent absurdity of Stella's predicament, delivering clichéd situations and dialogue. And Midler's larger-than-life performance is daunting against the subtler approaches of Alvarado and Mason. - 40
Orlando Sentinel
No one looks particularly comfortable, not even Midler, who has most of the best dialogue. She's watchable as Stella, but that's really the nicest thing I can say for her work in this unfortunate picture. Does Bette Midler really believe that people of limited means can't raise their kids decently? Or is the Divine Miss M making some great joke whose subtle point I am failing to grasp? - 40
Variety
The semitragic Stella Dallas shows her years in this hopelessly dated and ill-advised remake. - 33
Entertainment Weekly
Stella is never dull, but by the time it replays the famous Barbara Stanwyck-in-the-rain scene, it’s jerking camp laughter instead of tears. - 30
Los Angeles Times
This 20-year saga of an uneducated, working-class single mother who sacrifices everything to give her daughter the chance she never had is so recklessly shameless it verges on camp parody.
