Stella Payne is a very successful stockbroker in her 40s and raised her son Quincy. She lives in Marin County, California, her best friend from college, persuaded her to take a holiday. To Jamaica. While filled with the beauty of the island, she encounters a beautiful young man, Winston Shakespeare, 20 years younger. Her quest for a thriving romantic relationship forces Stella to take a personal inventory of her life and try to find a balance between her desire for love and companionship and responsibilities as a mother and executive supervisor.
Stella may be frothy and paper-thin, but it's also another great success for star Angela Bassett, who transforms the film into an infomercial for her considerable abilities.
The "Groove" is on the move in Sullivan's ethnically snappy and exotic May-December romancer. Bassett and Diggs make for a sizzling couple
Rolling Stone
May 11, 2001
Delivers guilt-free escapism about pretty people having wicked-hot fun in pretty places.
Boxoffice Magazine
June 05, 2002
There is insufficient chemistry, more tension and fighting than romance, and no epiphanal moment to demonstrate that Stella has indeed gotten her groove back.
I'm not denying that a 40-year- old woman might be self-conscious about going around with someone this young. But the subject isn't interesting or provocative enough to sustain an entire movie.
