Synopsis
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love - even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.
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Cast
- Angela BassettStella Payne
- Taye DiggsWinston Shakespeare
- Whoopi GoldbergDelilah Abraham
- Regina KingVanessa
- Suzzanne DouglasAngela
- Michael J. PaganQuincy Payne
- Sicily JohnsonChantel
- Richard LawsonJack
- Barry Shabaka HenleyBuddy
- Lee WeaverNate
Recommendations
- 78
Austin Chronicle
The filmmakers go to obvious pains to add a bit of nutritive value to their sweet, frothy confection. - 75
ReelViews
For once, with How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Hollywood offers a love story that concentrates on the simple nuances of the romance rather than smothering us in an overly- melodramatic narrative featuring old boyfriends, jealousy, and hard-to-swallow misunderstandings. - 75
Rolling Stone
Whether you regard Stella's getting her groove back as a feminist battle cry or as a silly wish-fulfillment fantasy, the movie delivers guilt-free escapism about pretty people having wicked-hot fun in pretty places. - 70
The New York Times
The movie, adapted by Terry McMillan from her semi-autobiographical novel, is pointedly boundary-breaking in its positive portrayal of a May-September relationship between a younger man and an older woman. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
How Stella Got Her Groove Back tries its best to turn a paperback romance into a relationship worth making a movie about, but fails. - 60
The A.V. Club
A glossy, attractive, ultimately empty soap opera that -- despite being based on a true story -- never seems remotely plausible. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The movie meanders on and on, like a bad sexual dream, until you finally wake up mumbling: Stella, please: leave that groove thang alone. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
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.
