ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

SnoopyStyle It's 1969. Mary Rose Foster (Bette Midler) is a tired superstar. She is lonely, drunk, a recovering drug addict, and desperate to get off the stage. His greedy manager Rudge Campbell talks her out of it. She gets dismissed by country legend Billy Ray (Harry Dean Stanton) and she runs off with limo driver Huston Dyer (Frederic Forrest). He's AWOL from the Army.This is a tour de force performance from Bette Midler. She uses all of her singing and stage presence to be a rock star on film. It helps that she does really perform on stage. There are some solid hits. It's her film acting debut and she shines. It's a great launching pad for her. The plot does ramble on and on. It would help to place a destination or a ticking clock on the story. I never really love Dyer although I thought they were building good chemistry until that incident. I assumed that relationship would be central all the way to the end. The flow is a little ragged. The overriding takeaway is Bette Midler's terrific performance.

mark.waltz The similarities to Janis Joplin are obvious in Bette Midler's performance as Rose, a rock star climbing up and falling just as quickly with an over-indulgence of drugs and alcohol, fame and folly, regret and romance. She had been around for over a decade with live performance, and in her first major motion picture, moved into the second phase of her career with power and passion, becoming a legend, and deserving super-stardom of the highest order.She's a likable character, getting involved with the handsome Fredric Forrest but dooming that relationship thanks to her crazy lifestyle and a few secrets out of her past. Her tough agent (Alan Bates) tries to keep her in line, but can't even stop the independent Rose from swearing at a concert. When Bette encounters a group of drag queens in a nightclub (even one who looks like herself), she is in heaven, both as Rose and Bette, bringing a lot of herself and live interaction in performing with them. Look briefly for Doris Roberts in a silent cameo as Rose's mother.Then, in live performances, Bette shows she is as adept as performing hard rock as she is with the standards which she has influxed her career with. By the time she breaks into the title song over the credits, you have probably missed the names of the people involved because your eyes were too blurry from crying. Bette went back to live performance for a short time after this but within a few years, would be back on top when she signed with Touchstone. But it all started with "The Rose", and she proves that both as a comic and dramatic actress (who sings!) that she is one tough act to follow.

vintkd I have saw many films about famous persons and about music but "Rose" is one of the best I have ever seen. It's really timeless movie and it always thrillingly to re-watching, at some moment you forget what is movie, you just living with characters of this film some time. Bette Midler showed here high class her acting and I will be planning re-watch all her filmography for the coming time, she is exceptionally talented actress and exactly the one of the best. The "Rose" is most truthful and emotional movie about generation 60's -70's, times when were born really great music and grand musician, whose we remember and love until today. It's very sensitivity and live story about woman dedicated herself and her life to music and gave to it all, without remainder. Pure brilliance and masterpiece for the century!!!

Tim Kidner 'The Rose' is two hours of enjoyable entertainment. Described as a 'Joplin-like' drama, I initially wanted a Janis Joplin biopic. Too young to be a record buyer - or listener even, when Joplin was scorching the music scene with her incredible vocals that notion was intriguing and I wasn't going to the cinema when this film came out.Watching it late on TCM, the clichés and standard script clanked wearily and I was expecting a long haul. Seasoned and well respected Brit actor Alan Bates seemed an odd choice as the music manager and promoter and I initially thought that he had undersold himself. Luckily, his fairly subtle performance does not try and steal anything away from the raucous and bubbly Bette Midler, who was Oscar nominated for her efforts. That she performed the vocals, too, (the soundtrack seems to be available on CD, as well) is even more impressive - I was sure of - and looking at the end credits - to find out which singing sensation had performed the actual vocals.Harry Dean Stanton, always good value seemed to have a very small part, which was disappointing, whilst the two young men in Rose's chaotic life, Fredric Forrest and David Keith (the latter who I have recognised in other films) again do a credible job.The planes, limos and stadiums full of adoring fans are annoyingly predictable, but I guess you cannot get away from those. I have to add that the sound quality was very good on the music performance side (also Oscar nominated) and it's very tempting to crank up the volume when Bette belts those numbers out.There are some other good scenes; the one in the drag queen bar especially endearing and thankfully, hissy-fits and melodramatic outbursts kept just to the right side of OK.So, if you like your 'tough-at-the-top', pretty gritty fame flick and you enjoyed the music scene from the early '70s and especially if you are a Bette Middler fan, then The Rose has a lot going for it. The baggage full of clichés become a reluctantly necessary attachment - get over those and you might well enjoy it, as I ended up doing.