How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

Cast:

Whoopi Goldberg,
Angela Bassett,
Taye Diggs,
Victor Garber,
Glynn Turman,
Regina King,
Richard Lawson,
Art Metrano,
Barry Shabaka Henley,
Carl Lumbly,
Suzzanne Douglas,
Lou Myers,
Lee Weaver,
Michael J. Pagan,
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney,
Sicily,
Lisa Hanna,
D'Army Bailey,
Philip Casnoff,
Phina Oruche,
James Pickens Jr.,
Denise Hunt,
David C. Waite,
Elisabeth Granli,
Selma McPherson,
Andrew Palmer,
Craig Blake,
Steve Danton,
Elly McGuire,
Kenneth Buckford,
Simon Street,
Fern Ward,
Harold Dawkins,
Tenny Miller

Director:

Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Producer:

Screenwriter:

Composer:

Michel Colombier

description:

How Stella Got Her Groove Back is a 1998 romance film, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. The film stars Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg and Regina King. This film is an adaptation of Terry McMillan's bestselling novel by the same title. The original music score was composed by Michel Colombier.

plot:

Stella (Angela Bassett) is a very successful, 40-year-old stock broker raising her son and living in Marin County, California who is persuaded by her New York girlfriend Delilah (Whoopi Goldberg) to take a well deserved, first-class vacation to Montego Bay, Jamaica. As she soaks in the beauty of the island, she encounters a strapping young islander, Winston Shakespeare (Taye Diggs), who is 20 years younger. His pursuits for her turn into a hot and steamy romance that forces Stella to take personal inventory of her life and try to find a balance between her desire for love and companionship, and the responsibilities of mother and corporate executive.