The Rose (The Tour)

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Directed by

Mark Rydell

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Bette Midler
Rose

Alan Bates
Rudge

Frederic Forrest
Dyer

Harry Dean Stanton
Billy Ray

Barry Primus
Dennis

David Keith
Mal

Sandra McCabe
Sarah

Will Hare
Mr. Leonard

Written by

Michael Cimino
story (uncredited)

Bo Goldman
screenplay

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Bette's masterpiece

1 year, 7 months ago at Oct 12 11:10

Kyle Ellis

In THE ROSE, Bette Midler plays a character based on the life of Janis Joplin. This one of those rare movies where everything works perfectly. Although she is amazingly talented, I sometimes wonder if Bette herself ever looks back on this movie and wonders how she managed such an amazing portrayal, in the same way that an Olympic skater reviews the footage of a 10.0 performance and is stunned that... read more

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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 ruthless manager, and Harry Dean Stanton and Frederic Forrest add some interesting seasoning. But as a whole, the film can't rise above its mixed purposes or clichés. --Tom Keogh

Release date: 7 November 1979
UPC: 024543075875

Tags: Drama (4), Music (4), Drugs (3), 1979 (3), Music Video (2), Musical (2), Tear Jerker (2), 1970s (2), Rock And Roll (2), AFI Top 100 Movie Songs (1), Reference To Mae West (1), Attention (1), Loosely Based On Real Events (1), Self Destructiveness (1), Mob Of Reporters (1), Wrapped In Bedsheet (1), Pop Singer (1), Returning Home (1), Country Singer (1), Dependence (1)

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Bette's masterpiece

“In THE ROSE, Bette Midler plays a character based on the life of Janis Joplin. This one of those rare movies where everything works perfectly. Although she is amazingly talented, I sometimes wonder if Bette herself ever looks back on this movie and wonders how she managed such an amazing portrayal, in the same way that an Olympic skater reviews the footage of a 10.0 performance and is stunned that every blade stroke really is picture perfect.

While the storyline is memorable, and the acting superb, music outshines everything else. This is a movie from 1979, a time when rock and roll was still considered a lifestyle, and big rock bands were treated with absolute god-like adoration. Music mattered. It was a vital part of peoples' lives, and in THE ROSE it reaches the heights of exc” read more