How Stella Got Her Groove Back Dance Grooves (1998)

Stella (Angela Bassett) loosens up on the dance floor and gets her groove on with Winston (Taye Diggs). Terry McMillan and Ron Bass wrote this screenplay based on McMillan s semiautobiographical bestselling novel (over 2, 000, 000 copies in print before the release of this film). San Francisco stockbroker Stella (Angela Bassett), a 40yearold divorcee, has a nice Marin County home and an 11yearold 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, goodlooking 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 Awardwinning songwriters Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis supervised the film s music and produced the R Bslanted soundtrack album. Shown at the 1998 Urbanworld Film Festival (NY).