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How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Jack Sommersby | 8:49 a.m. March 27, 1999

Actor Nicholas Cage and director Brian De Palma are
energetic, imaginative, volcanic talents whom -- given the
right material -- can contribute some quite remarkable
products. Nicholas Cage astounded us with his Oscar-winning
turn in LEAVING LAS VEGAS, and the hot-and-cold De Palma is
a techincal virtuoso, who, in 1981, created the brilliantly
hypnotic BLOW OUT (one of my top 10 films of all-time).
Here, working with a script concocted by De Palma and David
Koepp, we have an actor and director trashing their talents
in one of the stupidest scripts ever to be greenlighted by a
major studio. The overall premise could have been workable,
yet the contextual components, such as believable
characterizations and plausible plot points, are dismally
bad, leaving the audience with an overacting, hyperactive
Cage and some at-times colorfully lucid cinematography
(compliments of Stephen H. Burum, De Palma's regular
photographer).

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Movie Info

Rated R for violence, profanity, vulgarity, nudity, sex.

Cast: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg; based on the novel of the same name

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