Stella

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Summary: "STELLLLLLLLLLLLA!"
Review: Quoted by Marlon Brando, the title of my review is how i feel about this film. My mother turned me on to this film, so it has sentimental value to me. Bette Midler gives a raunchy yet riveting performance as Stella Dallas, a fiesty, headstrong single mother raising her illigimate daughter, Jenny. Both actresses play out their characters with love and emotion. You can tell that they both actually cared about the characters they were playing and it shows through their performances. Standing ovations for both Bette Midler and Trini Alvarado. There is also wonderful acting all across the board in this film. John Goodman plays an intoxicating drunk with heart! Stella is the kind of movie that will make you laugh and cry, sincerely. Especially if you have a close relationship with your mother.

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Summary: Bette Midler shines as Stella
Review: STELLA stars Bette Midler. It's a touching movie about the bond between mother and daughter. After a fling with a doctor, she becomes pregnant, and refuses to accept any charity from him. As Jenny (her daughter) gets older, she allows her to have a relationship with her father. Stella and Jenny share special bond, and there is laughter and tears along the way. When Jenny becomes a teenager, and closer to her dad, Stella realizes she can't provide the life for Jenny that her father could, so she sends her off. I thought the ending of the movie was very sad, maybe not intended but I thought it was. Lots of laughs in between the tears.

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Summary: Not so Good as Beaches
Review: The movie that followed Bette Midler's highly successful BEACHES, this doesn't work as well mainly because it is not as good as the original and it was set in the 60s when it could have easily worked in the time period the movie was filmed. Bette plays a mother who can't give the best to her daughter and slowly pushes her away which causes her daughter to go to her father to live. Bette doesn't seem to really fit this role as a more dramatic actress such as Susan Sarandon or Meryl Streep would have effectively fit this role. John Goodman and Trini Alvarado as well as Martha Mason and Stephen Collins all give good performances that very well keep the movie going. BUt the movie is too slow and too old-looking and there is only so much that anyone including Bette could do. See Bette's Beaches or FOR THE BOYS instead.

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Summary: Oh, My...
Review: The original, STELLA DALLAS, was much better.
I love Bette, but this movie was horrible.
Very maudlin and mawkish...

Rating:
Summary: A day late and a dollar short.
Review: The very best movie. The greatest display of love between a mother and her daughter. I remember when I was younger my mother and I would curl up on the couch together with our tissues and prepare ourselves. crying EVERY TIME.
Now much older I find myself watching this movie, knowing line for line and still crying at the same parts. The very best movie.
If you cried at beaches, you'll cry at this one too.

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Summary: "Just let me see her face, I gotta see her face.."
Review: The very best movie. The greatest display of love between a mother and her daughter. I remember when I was younger my mother and I would curl up on the couch together with our tissues and prepare ourselves. crying EVERY TIME.
Now much older I find myself watching this movie, knowing line for line and still crying at the same parts. The very best movie.
If you cried at beaches, you'll cry at this one too.

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Summary: a true heart-rending classic
Review: This is an amazing movie that will keep you spellbound...seriously!!! If you have a heart, there is no way you won't be moved by this movie. It incorporates all the faces of Bette Midler as the protagonist; she is hilarious despite her loneliness, proud and yet humble, and selfish and yet so giving! Watch this movie!!! Trini Alvarado also gives a great performance!!!

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Summary: OUR FAMILY'S FAVORITE!
Review: This is one of our family's favorite movie. It's sad and funny and it just has always been there as a reminder of parent's love. Being two sisters we ove how the father always reminds his daughter that his shoulder to cry on is what she needs. Great acting! Highly recommended!

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Summary: Bette Midler is heart-breaking
Review: This movie is really a beautiful, heartbreaking, tearjerking classic. It will entertain you, make you laugh, and genuinely fall in love with Bette Midler as the woman always looking for love, and only finding it in her daughter. I cried through the whole thing. It is really, really sad, but really great. In the end, when Bette gives up her daughter so she can have a better life with her wealthy father, you'll really want to give Bette a hug. Her character deserves the love and happiness more than anyone else.

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Summary: oh, BOY, will you cry! You'll cry buckets...
Review: This movie is terrific; it's funny and sad at the same
time. The strongest thing in the movie is the
story itself--that's what keeps you glued to the TV.
Bette Midler is good; John Goodman is swell, and
the whole movie will give you a good time.

Try it, you'll like it!