How Stella Got Her Groove Back

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

20th Century Fox

August 14, 1998

Romcom

DVD
C-

I'm giving the movie the same grade I gave the Terry McMillan novel (reviewed here https://rereadingeverybookiown.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-stella-got-her-groove-back.html), although it did not, as least in the first quarter hour, have the same flaws.  Well, I didn't care about Stella in either version, but here she's just dull, and Winston doesn't show up until later.  Kevin Rodney Sullivan directed, seven years before Guess Who.

Guess Who

Guess Who

Sony

March 25, 2005

Comedy
DVD
D+

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) is a sincere if flawed look at an upper-middle-class couple's reaction to their daughter's interracial engagement.  Putting Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutchner in a dumbed-down, race-flipped remake was not the brightest idea, although I could've stuck with it if it were at least funny.  But when I'm more invested in the cabbie, and even a couple canoodling in the background of a crowd shot, it's a bad sign.  And, no, it's not funny.  Kevin Rodney Sullivan directed.