Movie Info

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 h...(read more...) ybrid 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 clichés. --Tom Keogh

Director: Mark Rydell

MPAA: R

Running Time: 134 min.

Release Date: Nov 07, 1979

Cast: Alan Bates, Barry Primus, Bette Midler, Charlie McCarthy, Chip Zien, David Keith, Doris Roberts, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Starrett, James Keane, John Dennis Johnston, Jonathan Banks, Kathryn Grody, Pat Corley, Sandra McCabe, Sandra Seacat, Sandy Ward, Victor Argo, Will Hare