Stella
Release date: 2008-11-12
Votes: 53
Genres: Drama, Romance
Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents' bar.
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