The slob-vs.-snob soaper, Stella Dallas, remade with exactly the amount of taste and tact that ought to enable it to empathize completely with the heroine. It nonetheless seems like a forced march: the roomful of balloons for a marriage proposal, the food fight to make the dinner guests feel at their ease, the big noisy exits from a Schubert recital and a Goodbye Columbus screening (the first because the heroine can't stifle her giggles, the second because her "water broke"), and so on. A great wet trembling mouth of a movie. With Bette Midler, Trini Alvarado, John Goodman, Stephen Collins, and Marsha Mason; directed by John Erman. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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