The Rose
by Mark Rydell
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Actor: Alan Bates, Bette Midler, Hildy Brooks, Jonathan Banks, Luke AndreasDirector: Mark Rydell
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Composer: Paul A. Rothchild
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Rose
Movie Review: Horrible
Summary: 1 Stars
Hard to believe this mess was so highly regarded back in the 70s when it first appeared. Midler is very unattractive by today's standards and the plot here, such as it is, is very standard fare. Modeled on the Janis Joplin story, it completely misses the mark, and the music isn't even close to anything Joplin herself did. Interesting as a period piece that has not held up.
Summary of The Rose
In an Oscar-nominated performance, Bette Midler portays a rock star whose success is laced with so much booze, drugs and hard-living, it eventually causes her downfall. Trapped in a self-created hell Rose begs her manager (Alan Bates) for time off from her concert tour. When he refuses, she seeks compfort and love in the arms of a handsome driffter (Frederic Forrest), but even he cannot handle her life of excess. Electrifying musical numbers, including the hit song "The Rose" make the film a pop culture classic.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 clich?s. --Tom Keogh
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