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Released
1998 · FILM

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

“Sometimes you have to break the rules to free your heart.”

Directed by
Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Written by
Terry Mcmillan, Ron Bass
Runtime
124 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Starz

Synopsis

Stella and Delilah have remained close companions through various stages of their lives. As Stella becomes increasingly focused on constructing her future, she begins to lose touch with the present. Delilah, however, is about to help her rediscover it. What begins as a brief trip to Jamaica transforms into a journey of personal growth, during which Stella learns to embrace life more fully and opens herself to the possibility of love—with a man two decades her junior.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by George BowersShot by Jeffrey JurScored by Michel ColombierDesigned by Chester Kaczenski

Box Office

1998 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$37.7M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$37.7M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $11.3M — 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $15.7M — 42% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,395 theaters

Also known as

  • Stella's Groove: Männer sind die halbe Mietede
  • Cómo Stella recuperó la marchaes
  • Sans complexesfr
  • Benvenuta in Paradisoit

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