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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 1998 DVD Release: 03/06/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 4 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Total Copies: 2 Genres: Comedy Drama, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama

Terry McMillan and Ron Bass wrote this screenplay based on McMillan's semi-autobiographical best-selling novel (over 2,000,000 copies in print before the release of this film). San Francisco stockbroker Stella (Angela Bassett), a 40-year-old divorcee, has a nice Marin County home and an 11-year-old son, Quincy (Michael J. Pagan). With Quincy off to see his dad, Stella and her best friend Delilah (Whoopi Goldberg) vacation in Jamaica, where she meets sexy, good-looking Winston Shakespeare (Taye Diggs). He's the man of her dreams in every way except one -- he's half her age. Even so, a romance develops. Grammy Award-winning songwriters Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis supervised the film's music and produced the R&B-slanted soundtrack album. Shown at the 1998 Urbanworld Film Festival (NY). ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

Angela Bassett - Stella
Taye Diggs - Winston Shakespeare
Regina King - Vanessa
Whoopi Goldberg - Delilah
Suzzanne Douglas - Angela

Kevin Rodney Sullivan's adaptation of Terri McMillan's How Stella Got Her Groove Back comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Closed-captioned English soundtracks are rendered in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital Stereo. English and Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a making-off featurette, and the original theatrical trailer. This is a solid release from 20th Century Fox that will please fans of the film. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide