How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Dir. Kevin Rodney Sullivan · R · 124 min · 8/14/1998
High-powered San Francisco stockbroker Stella Payne, in her early forties and overdue for a break, flies to Jamaica on a whim and falls for a man twenty years her junior. The relationship forces her to weigh the safety of her predictable life against the pull of unexpected joy.
Why it’s here: Stella is on the threshold of midlife when she rediscovers desire, confidence, and her own appetite for life. The reinvention it’s really about — refusing to believe the best is behind you — lands hardest for women at and past the crone years.
