How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Angela Bassett
Taye Diggs
Whoopi Goldberg
Regina King
Michael G Fisher
Film Details
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Synopsis
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. When Winston takes a time-consuming job, Stella returns home, only to discover she has lost her job. She returns to Jamaica, finding that Winston is in fact much richer than he has let on, but is then called to New York, where Delilah is ill. Winston follows her to New York and the two try to decide if their relationship can work.
Director
Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Cast
Angela Bassett
Taye Diggs
Whoopi Goldberg
Regina King
Michael G Fisher
Lisa Hanna
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
Lou Myers
Sicily Sewell
Andrew Palmer
Elly Mcguire
Suzzanne Douglas
Art Metrano
Toots Thielemans
Lee Weaver
Tenny Miller
Kenneth Buckford
Philip Casnoff
D'army Bailey
Barry Shabaka Henley
Fern Ward
Michael J Pagan
Phina Oruche
Victor Garber
Steve Danton
Simon Street
Craig Blake
Elisabeth Granli
James Pickens Jr.
Denise Hunt
Carl Lumbly
Harold Dawkins
Richard Lawson
Selma Mcpherson
Glynn Turman
Crew
Oleta Adams
Pamela Alch
Angela Barnes
Ron Bass
Ron Bass
Guy Norman Bee
Craig Berkey
David Betancourt
Frankie Beverly
Frankie Beverly
Rufus Blaq
Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige
James Bolt
Tracy Bolt
George Bowers
James Brown
James Brown
Nat Brown
Chris Buchinsky
Richard Buckler
Cecile Burrowes
Donald Byrd
Ted Caplan
Ruth Carter
Carrie Cashman
Russell Clark
H Clayton
George Clinton Jr.
P Todd Coe
Bootsy Collins
Michel Colombier
Frank E Cummings
Marc Dabe
Steve Danton
Karen M Davis
Moses Davis
Sterfon Demings
Don Devine
Autry Dewalt
Brent Dowe
Jerry Duplessis
Seth Edelstein
Max Elliott
Frank Farian
Andrew Farriss
Jene Fielder
Dawn Fintor
Kevin Ford
Kevin Ford
Victor Garber
Kirk Gardner
Jacqueline Gareave
Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye
Judi Giovanni
Tim Gomillion
Mick Guzauski
Marion Hall
R Hammond
Barbara Harris
James Harris
Rick Hart
John Hartigan
Rupert Holmes
Andrea Horta
Dann Huff
Michael Hutchence
Victor Iorillo
Jimmy Jam
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean
Jeffrey Jur
Jeffrey Jur
Chester Kaczenski
Bosco Kante
Stanley Kastner
Diana King
Diana King
Tom Kramer
David Kulczycki
Richard Lannaman
Edie Lehmann-boddicker
Antoinette Levine
Lisa J Levine
Terry Lewis
David Lucarelli
Trevor Macnaughton
Francine Maisler
Bob Marley
Chris Mcgeary
Terry Mcmillan
Terry Mcmillan
Terry Mcmillan
Boyz Ii Men
Christian Minkler
Montez Monroe
Chante Moore
Gil Morales
Ralph Morrison
Judy Murdock
Andy Narell
Me'shell Ndegeocello
Me'shell Ndegeocello
David Norris
Christopher S Nushawg
Jennifer Ogden
Jennifer Ogden
Eric Orbom
Peter I Packer
George Paine
John Patitucci
Eric Persing
Maxi Priest
Joseph Regina
George Reyam
Charlene Richards
Alexander Richbourg
John D Riley
Christopher Rios
Angelo Rivers
Tracy Robinson
Beresford Romeo
Brenda Russell
Deborah Schindler
Jeffrey Schindler
Renata Schneuer-barnett
Paul Sokol
Donald Sparks
Alicia M Stevenson
Paul Stevenson
Laura Stuart
Nadine Sutherland
Donald Sylvester
Natalie Thompson
Susumu Tokunow
Julia Walker
Caron Wheeler
Caron Wheeler
Norman Whitfield
Dwight Williams
Ian A Williams
Steven D Williams
Little Stevie Wonder
Little Stevie Wonder
Bernard Worrell
James Q Wright
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of three 1999 NAACP Image Awards, including Outstanding Film, Outstanding Actress (Angela Bassett) and Outstanding Supporting Actress (Whoopi Goldberg).
Released in United States 1998
Released in United States August 1998
Released in United States on Video January 5, 1999
Released in United States Summer August 14, 1998
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival (out of competition) August 27 - September 7, 1998.
Shown at Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City (Worldwide Plaza) August 5-9, 1998.
20th Century Fox has reportedly paid $1.5 million against $2 million for the screen rights to the latest novel from Terry McMillan ("Waiting to Exhale").
Feature acting debut for Taye Diggs.
Feature directorial debut for Kevin Rodney Sullivan.
Began shooting September 29, 1997.
Completed shooting December 17, 1997.
Screenwriter Ronald Bass will reportedly receive $2 million for this project.
Released in United States 1998 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival (out of competition) August 27 - September 7, 1998.)
Released in United States on Video January 5, 1999
Released in United States August 1998 (Shown at Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City (Worldwide Plaza) August 5-9, 1998.)
Released in United States Summer August 14, 1998
