How Stella Got Her Groove Back Details

Based on the novel by Terry McMillan, this is a companion piece to the earlier Waiting to Exhale, which also starred Angela Bassett. Here she plays single mother Stella, who is encouraged by her best friend (Whoopi Goldberg) to escape her downbeat existence for a holiday in Jamaica. It's there that she meets half-her-age hunk Taye Diggs (in his feature film debut), and the audience is treated to picture-postcard shots of both their romance and the island itself. You'll want to book a holiday to the Caribbean before the film is over, but you won't be as enchanted with the characters, who are only briefly sketched by writer Ronald Bass and director Kevin Rodney Sullivan.

Stella's got a spunky loving son, a big numbers job on the money markets (if it counts) and great-fitting pink running... read more on Time Out