The Rose

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Summary: bette midler is fantastic!3 cheers to bette
Review: i loved this movie!It is the best drama i have ever seen!Bette Midler is quite an actress in this film.you will also her singing in this film.I will tell you.You will laugh and you will cry.You will see the life of an overworked pushed to the edge star.when she tries to get time off of her manager.he tells her she don't need it.you will love this movie!

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Summary: It's the song that makes the movie
Review: I watched this movie because I was curious about the song of the same name featured in it. Amanda McBroom has composed a song that is positively brilliant for its simple poignancy. It is a joy to use this song as a teaching tool. I have taught English in Chinese and Japanese universities - and in both countries (China in particular) the song was received very enthusiastically. For the song alone the creators of this movie have left a wonderful legacy. But I must say the actual story was nothing special - just a typically uninspired romp through the predictable miseries of show business "success." As song, however, "The Rose" is gleaming jade in a pile of gray pebbles.

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Summary: loved it then and still love it today.........
Review: inspiring in its own sad way...........true for so many that find sucsess is more to handle than they imagined. portrays how the celebrity status can be so popular, but feel so alone. thought it was a very touching perspective of all the pressures that celebrities deal with.

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Summary: Janis knock off flops without the right information
Review: Miss Midler stared in this movie, The Rose, which is some sort of Janis Joplin-like video about a star overwhelmed by stardom. This might be a good storyline and plot, but they had very much of the information wrong. Janis was not overwhelmed, she loved being adored by america. She wasn't a pathetic teen who didn't know life. She was smart and thought deeper than depicted in the movie. 1 star is even too much.

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Summary: Leaving off one star due to the directores missteps
Review: Pure, powerful, raw, intense and unforgettable. This movie really is all those. Bette Midler took a role that legally had to change it's main characterization and managed to give that years best (yes, even over Sally Field) performance. She is thee reason to watch and though the time period should have been more defined it still gives a sense of how music was changing to the corporate [stuff] we now have before us.

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Summary: Leaving off one star due to the directores missteps
Review: Pure, powerful, raw, intense and unforgettable. This movie really is all those. Bette Midler took a role that legally had to change it's main characterization and managed to give that years best (yes, even over Sally Field) performance. She is thee reason to watch and though the time period should have been more defined it still gives a sense of how music was changing to the corporate [stuff] we now have before us.

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Summary: "A SIMPLE MAN"
Review: Simple maybe...but not stupid. Why did I say that? Because I am so tired of these reviews by people who can't seem to simply enjoy a movie. This movie was what established me as a fan of Bette Midler. I felt that her performance was genuine and heartfelt.You can feel the lonliness and lost feeling a rock performer might have when on the road. However, you also enjoy the passion she exudes when on-stage. These feelings are what pull at you. I also loved the brassy way she has of telling people to *#@^>-off! SO... this simple man would suggest that you sit back and enjoy this one, it's worth your time(and money).

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Summary: Becomes the rose...
Review: THE ROSE, for its bravura performance by Bette Midler in a Joplinesque tale of the excesses and pitfalls of fame, has difficulty finding its own legs some 25 years after its release. While the movie packs a wallop by the end in emotional intensity, the lead in is far too predictable to keep this from being entirely riveting. The other problem with this film, and perhaps its biggest flaw, is the overuse of concert scenes. While these are full of energy and excitement, they tend to drag the plot down considerably. Yes, we have some clue that Rose works her [tail] off, but the extent to which we see this tends to hurt the film's pacing. THE ROSE is not a classic movie but a classic PERFORMANCE by Midler. Her acting career has been a spotty one at best and THE ROSE is by far her greatest achievement. Midler's performance is full of paradox: touching yet abrasive, sensitive yet ribald, comic yet tragic. THE ROSE is BETTE MIDLER...the only reason this film hasn't passed into "forgotten Hollywood".

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Summary: A Startling Movie
Review: This 1979 film, for which star Bette Midler received an Oscar nomination, is a jolting, intense, and hypnotic portrayal of a famous rock star named The Rose. In this film, the viewer witnesses firsthand her life and death struggles with drugs, alcohol, and her vile manager, Rudge. (played by Alan Bates) This film in no way glamorizes the life of rock stars-it does precisely the opposite. It is a commentary on the sad life of someone who appears to have everything, but who in reality has nothing. The end will stun you, and Midler gives a stellar performance that you will NEVER forget. HIGHLY recommended.

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Summary: The old myth reworked
Review: This biopic of Joplin can be enjoyed on its own merits as the age-old theme of the outsider rising to fame and then falling from grace. It doesn't really capture Janis Joplin's personality as revealed by the biographies and her own music. Also, for me it's impossible to picture Bette Midler as a rock singer. Still, not a bad movie taken on its own terms and for those who were never particularly interested in Joplin's life or music.