stella and star bette midler in the title role and be an unabashed tearjerker . set in upstate new york and stella claire work night a a bar maid and pouring and dancing in a workingman saloon . one night and in come a slumming medical intern and stephen dallas and who woo stella and and in the course of their affair impregnate her . she spurn both his offer of marriage and abortion and send him pack to a lucrative medical career and and raise her daughter herself in near poverty . flash forward 16 year and the daughter have grow into a gorgeous and loving and young lady . dr. dallas be not out of the picture and still maintain a tenuous and but care relationship with his daughter and . i be ramble and and bad yet and make the movie sound somewhat interesting . the acting and screenwriting be so over the top you will let out a groan in almost every scene . the chief offender be bette midler and but close behind be john goodman a her alcoholic buddy . each scene seem more contrived than the precede right up to the finale and which be truly a hoot . take a a dramatic piece and this film rate no more than grade d and but a camp and it score an unintended b plus .