Product Details

• Actors: Bette Midler, John Goodman, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason
• Directors: John Erman
• Writers: Olive Higgins Prouty, Robert Getchell
• Producers: Bonnie Bruckheimer, David Coatsworth, David V. Picker, Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Touchstone / Disney
• VHS Release Date: April 21, 1994
• Run Time: 109 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000I1IL
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,927 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Tough and fiercely independent, Stella (Bette Midler) discovers that she is pregnant after a brief relationship with Dr. Stephen Dallas, but is too proud to accept a marriage of convenience from him or her well-meaning best friend (John Goodman). Ready to face life without regrets, Stella single-handedly raises her loving daughter Jenni (Trini Alvarado). Through the years, the two share a very special relationship, until Stella faces the truth - that she cannot provide for her daughter with a life of advantages her wealthy father can give her. Stella is a warm, humorous, and thoroughly entertaining film that speaks to the heart of all audiences!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love Stella, April 18, 2003

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"livia1881" (Ventura, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stella (DVD)

I have watched this movie so frequently that my video tape of it is practically disintegrated. The picture jumps all over the place and the sound drops out but that doesn't matter because I know all the dialogue by heart anyway. There are so many phrases I got from this movie that I still throw around. What great and fun dialogue! Next to Midler the only person who was more fun to watch was John Goodman. Just a hoot! As for the negative Jan. 2002 review regarding the ending of this movie, well. . . I do believe he/she missed the point.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bette Midler is heart-breaking, June 26, 2002

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Joan Crawford "Jon" (Lansing, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stella [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER STELLAR PERFORMANCE FROM THE DIVINE MISS M!, February 16, 2007

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S. Clarke "frogclaw" (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stella (DVD)

This movie was Bette's best performance since "The Rose". Definitely worth seeing and having for your DVD library. The pain she went through when she decided she wanted to give her daughter up to a better life was just amazingly unselfish. I would have given it a 10 if there were 10 stars! I only wish the Divine Miss M would make more movies like this!