In this section are listed Movies where Sylvester was or where his music have been used as a soundtrack.
  The Rose
Director: Mark Rydell
U.S.A. 1979 (134 min.) - Studio Fox

Cast: Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Sylvester, Sandra McCabe, Barry Primus, David Keith.

Bette Midler's film debut as a hard-drinking and rockstar -- inspired by the life of Janis Joplin -- struggling against the pressures of success. Alan Bates is her mean-spirited manager and Forrest is her on-again, off-again lover. The film's musical numbers contain a raw energy and Sylvester is in the film when "The Rose" joins a club to attend a show of imitators, during the show appears Sylvester impersonating Diana Ross. It's a short scene but for every Syl's fans this film it's a "must have"!

Longtime Companion
Director: Norman René
U.S.A. 1990 (96 min.) - MGM

Cast: Campbell Scott, Bruce Davison, Dermot Mulroney, Stephen Caffrey, Patrick Cassidy, Brian Cousins, Mary-Louise Parker, Michael Schoeffling.

The "Hit" Do Ya Wanna Funk is featured in the soundtrack of this beautiful film. The excertp of the song can be heard in the scene while the protagonists are in a Disco-Bar outdoors. A tremendously important and stirring film about the AIDS crises. Longtime Companion is an exceptional look into the lives of a group of gay friends and how the disease affects them. This remarkable film begins in 1981 and ends in 1989 charting the change in the characters, from carefree innocents enjoying their sexual freedoms to men numbed by suffering, forced to cope with the death of friends and lovers. A special mention to Bruce Davison his superlative portrayal of the lover who slowly watches his longtime companion succumb.