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Endless Love

1981

Franco Zeffirelli

Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray ...

4.7

1,018

Romance. Drama 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, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"It tries to touch so many bases that its transitions are jolting, its scenes often undeveloped, and the motives of its characters frequently unclear."	NEG
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"With pretty Martin Hewitt as David and pretty Brooke Shields as Jade, what you get is an overwrought teen make-out movie"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"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)"	NEU
United States	Richard Schickel Time	"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."	NEG
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"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."	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Endless? It's interminable...As excruciating as the Diana Ross/Lionel Richie title tune."	NEG

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