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	HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK
		How Stella lost her "groove" in the first place was not really all that important to me, but the way she got it back...if only we could all be so lucky.
		Stella is quite sensitive about the topic, not because she had sex with a man young enough to be her son, but because she knows she fell in love with him.
		Stella's emotions go into overdrive when she is laid-off from her job and her best friend faces a serious illness.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsH/f_stella.html (627 words)

	How Stella Got Her Groove Back . Memphis Flyer . 08-24-98
		Her longtime bosom buddy (played by Whoopi Goldberg), who lives in New York, encourages her to see that perhaps she is being consumed by her work and they arrange to meet for a vacation – given over to enjoyment of the senses – in Jamaica.
		Stella becomes involved with a well-educated, wise for his years, articulate, kind, Jamaican hunk – who happens to be 20 years her junior.
		Stella’s sisters, particularly, are weak foils which seem to exist in the story for no other reason than to provide extremes of middle-class pretensions on the one hand and tedious, sophomoric, four-letter humor on the other.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/memphis/h/howstellagothergr1.html (796 words)

	How Stella Got Her Groove Back
		Stella was pawing at her face, shaking her head, whining and yelping in pain.
		Stella dashed over, picked the bird up, and then as if only that minute realizing what she had done, she dropped it and with her tail between her legs slunk back to the trailer and into her box.
		Stella was as happy as I was rolling around in the grass and licking and chewing on me as I rolled her back and forth.
	www.angelfire.com /ak5/arrowheadkennels/stella.htm (8847 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" review
		I'm generally a sucker for romance, and I came close to liking "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," the latest adaptation from one of Terry McMillan's bonding women books ("Waiting to Exhale"), this one about a 40-year-old high-stakes broker (Angela Bassett) who finds herself revitalized in the arms of a Jamaican hunk half her age.
		Stella returns home to San Francisco determined that her fling is over.
		She talks about how she always wanted to be a furniture designer and, despite the fact that they're both unemployed, Winston buys her an expensive lathe, demonstrating that while he's a cute, beguiling stud, he also has a tender heart.
	www.splicedonline.com /98reviews/howstella.html (716 words)

	Review: How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And, in How Stella Got Her Groove Back, a surprisingly low-key romantic melodrama adapted by Ron Bass and Terry McMillan from McMillan's novel, the issues that arise from such a May/September male/female pairing are sensitively and intelligently explored.
		How Stella Got Her Groove Back is loosely based on McMillan's own experience of falling in love and setting up house with a Jamaican man young enough to be her son.
		Soon Stella, who embarked upon the vacation in an uptight and unsettled mood, is beginning to unwind and rediscover the part of her that had gotten lost under the business suits.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/h/how_stella.html (952 words)

	'How Stella Got Her Groove Back'
		How Stella Got Her Groove Back" is the chick flick to end all chick flicks.
		Stella, a 40-year-old stockbroker, books an island vacation on a lark when her well-behaved and loving 11-year-old (Michael J. Pagan) goes to visit his father.
		By morning, Stella has relocated her groove and finds it to be in good working order.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/howstellagothergroovebackkempley.htm (634 words)

	: How Stella Got Her Groove Back - DVD film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stella lacks the heart and soul of a true "Terry McMillan" story; it's the same by the numbers May/December romance story used in one of those horrible made for TV adaptations of a Danielle Steele or a Jackie Collins novel.
		Expecting an interesting insight into how she fashioned her back into the exquisite example of lumbar beauty that it is today, I was disappointed to see just another film about a San Francisco stock broker who is persuaded by her colorful New York girlfriend Delilah to take a well deserved, first-class vacation to Jamaica.
		She even goes back with her son so he can meet this guy and wouldn't you know it, but he comes back to America to be with her.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/dvd_details.php/630522207X\|dvd (1270 words)

	HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK movie review, In Film Australia
		Stella (Angela Bassett) is an amazingly attractive 40-year-old who has a respectable job, which rakes in the dollars.
		But McMillan expects us to believe that Stella’s "groove" is gone by simply piecing together a few scenes of her at work, and quoting a few lines of dialogue about her having to get out more.
		Stella and Winston sing a boring chorus of "should we or should we not stay together", and that ultimately lasts for the rest of the ordeal.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/howstella.htm (521 words)

	'How Stella Got Her Groove Back'
		There are elements to like about "Stella." Newcomer Diggs is as natural and charismatic as he is handsome and, as Stella's earthy best friend Delilah, Whoopi Goldberg steals every scene she is in.
		The talented Bassett is asked to do little here other than model sportswear and wrinkle her forehead about her future with a man young enough to be her son, both of which she accomplishes with ease.
		But we never knew the character before she misplaced her groove, and the film supplies scant evidence of her current malaise.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/howstellagothergroovebackosullivan.htm (437 words)

	How Stella Got Her Groove Back: Win a trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Click on the winners' names below to read "how they lost their grooves and got them back." These compelling real life stories are heart-warming, gut-wrenching, uplifting, and most of all, demonstrate an indomitable spirit.
		The nine runner-up winners have won the HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK movie prize pack, including a women's cropped t-shirt, a neoprene water bottle holder, the movie soundtrack CD, and the novel by Terry McMillan.
		The baby is fine, I got back to work, and I found out that losing your groove is more a mental thing and that no matter who or where you are you can loose it.
	www.howstella.com /contest/contest.html (3447 words)

	How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/howstellagothergrooveback (778 words)

	How Stella Got Her Groove Back
		Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy - and she does it all.
		But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core not just by the relaxing effects of sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular.
		The tropics have cast their spell and Stella soon realizes she has come to a cataclysmic juncture: not only must she confront her hopes and fears about love, she must question all of her expectations, passions, and ideas about life and the way she has lived it.
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/863761.html (503 words)

	HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK
		Stella Payne has it all--a charming 11-year-old son, a beautiful house north of San Francisco, and a high-paying job as a financial systems analyst.
		For three years--since her divorce from the man who talked her into abandoning her art-furniture business in favor of a more lucrative career--Stella has had no serious love interest in her life.
		So Stella arranges for Winston to visit her in San Francisco--where the easygoing boy charms her son, her sisters, and her friends, and even talks Stella into dumping the stock exchange and returning to her artist's life.
	www.kirkusreviews.com /kirkusreviews/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1210670 (415 words)

	JamesBowman.net \| How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		How Stella Got Her Groove Back, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan from a screenplay by Terry McMillan and Ron Bass from Miss McMillan's novel, is a middle-aged woman's wish-fulfilment fantasy and, unfortunately, little else.
		Stella, sitting in the midst of them, obviously wonders that they are laughing at.
		Stella arrives in Jamaica in the company of best friend Delilah (Whoopi Goldberg), a fun-loving, life-affirming sexual adventuress who is urging her to find herself a toy-boy.
	www.jamesbowman.net /review.asp?pubID=647 (365 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: McMillan, Terry
		Her father was a sanitation worker and an abusive drunk.
		McMillan says that her writing was inspired by personal experiences of unfulfilling, explosive romantic relationships over the years, and she came to realize that many of her friends were in the same boat: educated, smart, attractive.
		Stella, the main character, is like McMillan, a forty-something professional single mother of a preteen son, who's no longer in possession of her "groove".
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/mcmillan_terry.html (1510 words)

	The Christian Critic: How Stella Got Her Groove Back
		The relationship between Stella and young Winston is obviously based on nothing more than a physical attraction, a fact that is emphasized by constantly dressing the attractive Miss Bassett in beachwear, nightgowns, and other such sexually suggestive garb.
		The reason Stella went to Jamaica in the first place was because she was over-worked and over-stressed.
		The way Stella "got her groove back" in the movie is nothing more than a temporary stopgap; a distraction that disguises the real problem.
	www.christiancritic.com /mov1998/hstella.asp (589 words)

	Press: How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Most of the movie is spent back in the states, addressing the question of how to fit the fantasy into real life.
		Her stunning face, body and clothing are nothing short of glamorous.
		The best-developed interactions are between Stella and her sisters — we see them develop from funny to touching.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/document4a4d.html (462 words)

	How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stella, a divorced Black woman in her 40s takes some time off work and travels to Jamaica while her son spends time with his father.
		While she is successful in her high-powered job, her love life is non-existant and her friend Delilah persuades her to take a rare vacation in order to relax.
		There she meets and falls in love with Winston, who is half her age more...
	www.hollywood.com /movies/detail/movie/164553 (115 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: How Stella Got Her Groove Back [1999]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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 mother whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica.
		Stella and Delilah have always been friends but because Stella is so busy she has forgotten what it's like to have fun.
		Delilah, on the other hand has not and soon Stella is on her way to Jamaica to experience self discovery and love...
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CZ6X (649 words)

	CNN - 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back' - October 21, 1998
		As the tropics cast their spell, Stella realizes she has come to a cataclysmic juncture: not only must she confront her hopes and fears about love, she must question all of her expectations, passions, and ideas about life and the way she has lived it.
		Her name is Krystal and she makes Cindy Crawford look like a zero and she only charges fifty dollars an hour.
		How to shoot some vitality into my heart, my mind, this house of soul I live in.
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9810/how.stella (3162 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on How Stella Got Her Groove Back at Epinions.com
		How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Terry's last book and 1998's hit movie, was a horrible...
		I fell in love with Stella Payne when I read the book "How Stella Got her Groove Back." This was way before thought of a movie ever came about.
		How she struggled with allowing her self to love a...
	www.epinions.com /How_Stella_Got_Her_Groove_Back_by_Terry_McMillan/display_~reviews (236 words)

	How Stella Got Her Groove Back News
		How Stella Got Her Groove Back News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Angela Bassett appears in the film "How Stella Got Her Groove Back." If you put high-quality African-American films on the screen - perhaps to honor Black History Month - you start with Spike Lee.
		BIRTHDAY GUY: Good-looking Taye Diggs, perhaps best known to movie-goers as the love interest of 1998's ``How Stella Got Her Groove Back,'' was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on this day in 1972.
	rss.topix.net /movies/how-stella-got-her-groove-back (667 words)

	Epilogue for 'Stella' author: a messy divorce
		He also claims he was denied his full share of royalties, as spelled out in the prenup, from "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," the fictionalized account of a single mother's torrid relationship with a Jamaican young enough to be her son that very much parallels the lives of McMillan and Plummer.
		For her part, McMillan, who was then 42, said she worried when she first met Plummer that he was interested only in her money.
		In pressing her claim of fraud, however, McMillan told the court that Plummer waited to tell her he was gay until he knew his application for citizenship was going to be approved.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/26/BAGTQDF4S01.DTL (1273 words)

	How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
		When sinewy Taye Diggs removes his shirt or takes a shower in How Stella Got Her Groove Back, the ladies in the audience gleefully issue admiring oohs and ahs, as if to give this glossy May-September romance their hearty stamp of approval.
		How Stella Got Her Groove Back is in the bold business of delivering vicarious, albeit polite, sensuality with little pretence and even less plot.
		But details of why her marriage failed are few, and the suddenly uncharacteristic impulse to leave her workaholic torment for a few days in paradise is never quite explained.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/How_Stella.html (587 words)

	CNN - Review: 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back' sudsy, sexy fun - August 14, 1998
		With Stella played by Angela Bassett, and with Bassett being Bassett, it is totally believable that a 20-year-old man would fall head-over-heels in love with this particuliar 40-year-old single mother.
		The age difference in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" provides a little long-overdue payback for the recent spate of films featuring aging male stars salivating over female co-stars young enough to be their daughters or in some cases, granddaughters!
		The novel "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" is mostly the internalized musings of a woman who has given up on love.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9808/14/review.stella (777 words)

	Amazon.ca: How Stella Got Her Groove Back [IMPORT]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		When Stella Payne (Angela Bassett), a forty-something African American and successful businesswoman, goes on a wild vacation to Jamaica, she gets more than she bargained for in the way of unconventional romantic interests.
		Drama is also high among Stella's conventional acquaintances - with whom she is shy to display her all-too-Jamaican boyfriend - and, while Winston appears comfortable in spite of the nationalistic disparity, it is all too obvious that Stella is not.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6305203512 (600 words)

	How Stella Got Her Groove Back \| The A.V. Club
		Angela Bassett is a wealthy, ridiculously good-looking single mother who travels with her sass-talking best friend Whoopi Goldberg to a Jamaican resort, where she meets and falls in love with a brilliant, ridiculously good-looking Jamaican man (Taye Diggs) 20 years her junior.
		Based on a semi-autobiographical bestseller by Terry McMillan, How Stella Got Her Groove Back is a glossy, attractive, ultimately empty soap opera that—despite being based on a true story—never seems remotely plausible.
		How Stella Got Her Groove Back isn't a bad movie, exactly, and it will likely please its core audience of sassy fl women.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/1696 (276 words)

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