THE ROSE

Details

• Release Year: 1979
• Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
• Plot: Bette Midler exploded onto the screen with her take-no-prisoners performance in this quintessential film about fame and addiction from director Mark Rydell. Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road. Incisively scripted and beautifully shot—by Vilmos Zsigmond, with assistance on the dazzling concert scenes by a host of other world-class cinematographers, including Conrad L. Hall, László Kovács, Owen Roizman, and Haskell Wexler—this is a sensitively drawn and emotionally overwhelming melodrama that made the popular singer into a movie star as well.
• Cast: Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus, David Keith, Sandra McCabe, Will Hare, Rudy Bond, Don Calfa, James Keane, Doris Roberts, Sandy Ward, Michael Greer, Kenny Sacha, Michael St. Laurent, Sylvester, Butch Ellis, Richard Dioguardi, John Dennis Johnston, Jonathan Banks, Jack O'Leary, Luke Andreas, Harry Northup, Cherie Latimer, Seamon Glass, Pat Corley, Dennis Erdman, Hugh Gillin, Joyce Roth, Frank Speiser, Constance Cawlfield, Annie McGuire, Hildy Brooks, Jack Starrett, Dimo Condos, Lorrie Davis, David Garfield, Kathryn Grody, Sandra Seacat, Chip Zien, Ted Harris, Victor Argo, Kelly Boyd, Cyndi Gottfried, L.D. Frazier, Larry Guardino, Tom Kubiak, Phil Rubenstein, Charlie McCarthy, Danny Weis, Louis Buchanan, Norton Buffalo, Steve Hunter, Jerry Jumonville, Mark Leonard, Mark Underwood, Whitey Glan, Allison Caine, David Cohen, Cathi Peyton Erman, Jack Hollander, Al Irizarry, Jonathon Johnson, Harold Jurkiewicz, Ralph Roberts, Jon Sholle, Ken Weiner, Martha Wingate, Byron Berline, Robert Dahdah, Doug Dillard, Rodney Dillard, Michael Charles Hill, John Larson, Dian Van Patten, Sid Terror, Eric Voge, Jeffrey Weissman, Mark Rydell, Michael Cimino(VII), Bo Goldman, Bill Kerby
• Director: Mark Rydell
• Runtime: 2:15
• Company: Twentieth Century-Fox, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie