The Rose (1979)

6.5	Listal rating
6.7	IMDB rating

1979 (1)

Description

Bette Midler plays a Janis Joplin-like singer overwhelmed by stardom and its excesses. Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) directs what is a kind of hybrid showcase for Midler's concert talents and a standard pop biopic, with the usual rhythms of desire, success, betrayal, failure, and such. Alan Bates is the best thing about the movie as the Rose's ruthl ... (more)

Directed by

Mark Rydell

Starring (View all) :

Mary Rose Foster

Rudge Campbell

Huston Dyer

Billy Ray

Dennis

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Sarah Willingham

Mr. Leonard

Monty

Don Frank

Written by (View all) :

Michael Cimino

uncredited

Bo Goldman

screenplay

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