Such a frustrating disappointment

not as good as all the hype

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Investment broker Lisa Walker (Mary Stuart Masterson) is sad. After her foster father Stanley's death, she breaks down at home. She was abandoned as a baby. Her foster mother died early on and Stanley was an uncaring drunk. Danny (Josh Brolin) is her inattentive boyfriend. Kim (Pamela Adlon) is her best and only friend. Lewis Farrell (Christian Slater) delivers flowers to her. He's a shy florist who also suffered losses. At first, he's unwilling to tell her the anonymous sender. He finally reveals that he sent the flowers after seeing her crying through her window.This is a sappy romance but not much of a tear jerker. It's romanticism without any pretense of being more. Masterson and Slater are an appealing photogenic couple. Most importantly, one really likes both characters because of the actors. The story is not overly dramatic. It's certainly not great cinema. However, it is romantic for those open to it.

When you cast Christian Slater in a part where he sends flowers to a complete stranger you never know what you're going get. It's not like he hasn't played off balance people before. And some might consider what he does to Mary Stuart Masterson as stalking.But Slater and Masterson make a fetching romantic couple in Bed Of Roses as a pair of lonely people looking for something or someone to complete them as a line in another film done in late 90s said. Slater has never been this romantic before or since on the big screen. Parts like he had in Kuffs, Pump Up The Volume, and Heathers are more like what he's identified with.Slater in fact was once in Masterson's world, he was a runner with Goldman&Sachs who lost a wife and child in childbirth. After that he just dropped out of it all and became a florist delivery man because flowers are beautiful and everyone is happy to see him when he delivers.Masterson is in that world now, but all she has is work. She was a foundling who was left at the Pittsburgh airport and raised in a foster home with a man who drank considerably and its hinted he may have done other terrible things to her. She has no romantic illusions, she does have work though and the world of high finance demands her attention completely.Bed Of Roses is a good, but not great film. It's lack of development of supporting characters is a big weakness. Still it's the definition of a star vehicle and the stars do shine in this one.

A love story with a difference, Christian Slater and Mary Stuart Masterton play 2 lonely people that find each other. Christian is a bit of a stalker but he gets away with it where most people would not!!!. Is it not just a little bit creepy for a guy that you have never met before to know where you work and where you live and send you flowers!!! Also walking past your house at nice is a bit out of order. In this day and age he would have probably been arrested or served with a restraining order. Christian is so sweet as Lewis the Florist that you could forgive him anything. This is a totally lovely and feel good film and the ending is just how you wish your life could be.

This Film was very touching! I loved it so much that I went out and bought a copy! the actors in this film were very touching! Plus all through out the movie christian slater would bite him lip! and I think that is just lucious! anyways to the MOVIE:THIS WILL REVEAL A GREAT DEAL OF THE MOVIE!!!!! WARNING!!!Lisa is a woman who has had a hard life... to begin with she doesnt know her birthday and is afraid to share her past with anyone! Lewis see's her one day standing in a window crying! and him being a delivery guy! sends her flowers! there is no card so she sets out to find the secret admirer and they fall in love until he notices her address book and that says one name for Philidelphia and the name is stanley! her foster father... she now reveals her past to lewis! that stanley was a drunk and he raped her and how she didnt know her birthday! the thing is! when he asked her to marry him! she replies! I wish I could give you part of me but I.. Just... I cant its not something I have in my possession right now! the ending was great! but I'll leave that! and anyone who doesnt believe that! BED OF ROSES was a good flick! then you dont know good movies! movies are just stories! good plots! I am A #1 movie buff I've seen almost everything you could possibly IMAGINE! 10/10 is what I give it! go see it!LISA IS PLAYED BY MARY STUART MASTERSON LEWIS IS PLAYED BY CHRISTIAN SLATERVERY GOOD MOVIE