Desert Rose

Bittersweet, funny and touching, Larry McMurtry''s The Desert Rose is the story of Harmony, a Las Vegas showgirl.

At night she''s a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She''s one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of supermarkets, drive-in weddin...