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The Rose Details

1979

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Starring	Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, David Keith
Director	Mark Rydell
Genres	Drama

The Rose

In this authentic, entertaining, and tragic film, Bette Midler plays Rose, a talented but exhausted, alcoholic rock star whose entire life is controlled by her cutthroat manager, Rudge (Alan Bates). Taking a bleak look at the downside of the music industry, THE ROSE chronicles the precipitous fall of this fictional rock & roll diva (modeled after Janis Joplin) as she nears a concert date in her home town that she hasn't been to in years. Pulled down by raging alcoholism and drug addiction, as well as her own insecurities, Rose's life begins to deteriorate to the point of complete self-destruction, all the while begging Rudge for a break in her grueling tour schedule. This raw, uncompromising, witty, and ultimately heartbreaking film includes several incredible musical performances by Midler in actual concert settings. THE ROSE is Midler's first role as an actress, and she embodies the alternately frenetic, worn-out, enraged, and sweetly insecure star with an almost inconceivable power, especially when interacting with her love, the faithfully adoring Dyer (Frederic Forrest).

Starring	Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, David Keith, Barry Primus, Harry Dean Stanton, Rudy Bond, Will Hare
Director	Mark Rydell
Studio	20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 9 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
Released	Production year: 1979 To Rent: DVD: 06 May 2002

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- An unattractive, hysterical, foul-mouthed show business biopic roughly based on Janis Joplin, this does afford an undisciplined night-club talent a role to get her teeth into.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  This film is a strong ...
  
  This film is a strong indictment of the inhuman demands of the pop music industry. Bette Midler, in her first major film, is stunning as the tired, alcoholic ... read more »
  
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  Some say love....
  
  Obviously if you love Bette or Janis or both you'll love this film - but even if you don't its still a journey worth taking. Inspired by the events of ... read more »
  
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  good film for its day oscar nom throughroly deserved . could have shown more of a back story to the life of rose and her manager to show how she got were she ... read more »
  
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  The rose
  
  Its a good film but old, lots of drinking in it, the best bit is the end which is what it all builds up to but can get boring in parts.
  
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Delpy collaborates with real-life dad onscreen
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- 29 Jan 2012
Actress/director Julie Delpy turned the set of her movie 2 Days In New York into a family affair by casting her real-life dad as her onscreen father. In the movie, Delpy's character Marion is paid a visit by her sister Rose and eccentric father Jeannot in the Big Apple, who clash when they meet her boyfriend Marcus, played by funnyman Chris Rock. And the French beauty admits it didn't take too long to get into character since she got to team up with her theatre director dad Albert Delpy in the Read more
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- The Rose
  
  In this authentic, entertaining, and tragic film, Bette Midler plays Rose, a talented but exhausted, alcoholic rock star whose entire life is controlled by her cutthroat manager, Rudge (Alan Bates). Taking a bleak look at the downside of the music industry, THE ROSE chronicles the precipitous fall ...