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How Stella Got Her Groove Back

1998 · 124 min

A warm, sunlit romance about second chances, balancing joy and heartache with an easy, celebratory spirit.

Tagline: Sometimes you have to break the rules to free your heart.
Overview: 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, ends 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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Tone: warmstrength 3 of 3
romanticstrength 3 of 3
upliftingstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
identity
family
friendship
grief
Places: big city
countryside
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	5
Realism	7
Romance	8
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama, comedy, romance
Directed by: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Written by: Ronald Bass, Terry McMillan
Starring: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg, Regina King, Suzzanne Douglas, Michael J. Pagan, Sicily Johnson, Richard Lawson
Music: Michel Colombier
Cinematography: Jeffrey Jur
Runtime: 124 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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