Stella (1990)

Directed by

John Erman

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Stella is a free-spirited single mother who raises her daughter Jenny in a small town. She works hard to give Jenny a better life and eventually makes a tough choice to secure her daughter's future.

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What happens

Stella is a 1990 American drama film produced by The Samuel Goldwyn Company and released by Touchstone Pictures. The screenplay by Robert Getchell is the third feature film adaptation of the 1923 novel Stella Dallas by Olive Higgins Prouty. Previous film versions were Stella Dallas (1937) and the silent film Stella Dallas (1925). The title character Stella Claire is an extrovert, flamboyant single mother living in Watertown, New York, who is determined to give her daughter, Jenny, all of the opportunities that she never had, ultimately makes a selfless sacrifice to ensure her happiness. This film version differs from earlier versions in that Stella never marries the father of her child Dr. Stephen Dallas and in fact declines his proposal early in the film. John Erman directed a cast that included Bette Midler as Stella and Trini Alvarado as Jenny, with John Goodman, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan, Linda Hart, Ben Stiller, and William McNamara in supporting roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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