The Rose (The Tour) (1979)

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Directed by

Mark Rydell

Starring (View all)

Bette Midler
Mary Rose Foster

Alan Bates
Rudge Campbell

Frederic Forrest
Huston Dyer

Harry Dean Stanton
Billy Ray

Barry Primus
Dennis

David Keith
PFC Mal

Sandra McCabe
Sarah Willingham

Will Hare
Mr. Leonard

Written by (View all)

Michael Cimino
story (uncredited)

Bo Goldman
screenplay

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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), 1979 (3), Drugs (3), Rock And Roll (2), Musical (2), 1970s (2), Music Video (2), Tear Jerker (2), Song (1), Roses (1), Reference To Diana Ross (1), Tragedy (1), Diva (1), Popularity (1), Demand (1), Year 1969 (1), Concert (1), Drug Addiction (1), Bar Fight (1)

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" Bette Midler play a Janis Joplin-like character singing, abusing alcohol, drugs and swearing a lot. It was surprised by her devastating performance here since I have seen her toned down, Disney/Vegas/Broadway "safe"-performances for decades. Worth seeing this movie for her devastating, surprising performance and the excellent cinematography that could make one think one was seeing a rock-concert for most of the time."