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Endless Love

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Endless Love

Original title

Endless Love

Year

1981

Running time

110 min.

Country

United States

Director

Franco Zeffirelli

Screenwriter

Judith Rascoe. Novel: Scott Spencer

Cast

Music

Jonathan Tunick

Cinematography

David Watkin

Producer

Polygram Filmed Entertainment

Genre

Romance. Drama | Romantic Drama. Teen/coming-of-age. Melodrama

Synopsis

Based on a novel by Scott Spencer, Endless Love details the doomed romance between 17-year-old David (Martin Hewitt) and 15-year-old Jade (Brooke Shields). Banished from Jade's home by her daddy Hugh (Don Murray), David obsessively cooks up a scheme to get back into the family's good graces. Since this plan involves setting Jade's house on fire, one can easily predict that the puppy-love romance is in for a bumpy ride. Jailed for arson, David heads directly to Jade the moment that he's released.

Awards: 1981: Nominated for Oscar: Best Original Song

1981: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Song in a Motion Picture

1981: 6 Nominations for Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, Director and Actress (Shields)

1999: Razzie Awards: nominated to Worst Actress of the Century.

1989: Razzie Awards: nominated to Worst Actress of the Decade.

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Critics' reviews

"It tries to touch so many bases that its transitions are jolting, its scenes often undeveloped, and the motives of its characters frequently unclear."

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"With pretty Martin Hewitt as David and pretty Brooke Shields as Jade, what you get is an overwrought teen make-out movie"

David Ansen: Newsweek
"The movie as a whole does not understand the particular strengths of the novel that inspired it, does not convince us it understands adolescent love, does not seem to know its characters very well, and is a narrative mess. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Hith her flat little voice and her skinny emotional range, one has to wonder: Is Brooke Shields truly obsession worthy? And can she carry, commercially, another movie about another kind of obsession? The answer is no."

Richard Schickel: Time
"A Cotton-candy rendition of Scott Spencer's powerful novel, Endless Love is a manipulative tale of a doomed romance which careens repeatedly between the credible and the ridiculous."

Variety Staff: Variety
"Endless? It's interminable...As excruciating as the Diana Ross/Lionel Richie title tune."

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Endless Love

1981

Franco Zeffirelli

4.7

(1,015)