| Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 17, 1981 |
Starring:
Beatrice Straight, Brooke Shields, Don Murray, Ian Ziering, James Spader, Martin Hewitt, Penelope Milford, Richard Kiley, Robert Moore, Shirley Knight
Summary:
A high school student's (Martin Hewitt) love for a 15-year-old girl (Brooke Shields) is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.
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And the person who seems least convinced of the validity of the passion is Brooke Shields, who looks ravishing but is most charming when she's childishly affectionate or aloof -- thus blithely making her partner, with his burning eyes, look demented. One begins to feel that making her forgive arson and worse in the name of true love is forcing the naivete of adults on a sensible child. [17 July 1981, p.17]
Mr. Zeffirelli and his screenwriter, Judith Rascoe, have bitten off so much more than they can chew that their film is virtually unintelligible at times. A great deal happens in the novel, much more than this two-hour movie can contain. But it tries to touch so many bases that its transitions are jolting, its scenes often undeveloped, and the motives of its characters frequently unclear.
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With pretty Martin Hewitt as David and pretty Brooke Shields as Jade, what you get is an overwrought teen make-out movie. [27 July 1981, p.74]
Isn't it past time to stop dangling Brooke Shields as erotic bait in movies where it's obvious that she doesn't comprehend sexality and everyone knows she's always doubled in sexually graphic interludes anyway? There's one weirdly funny take that seems to satirize this pretty string bean's excruciating lack of sexual consciousness. Tilting her head to one side and smiling like a simp, she looks amazingly like the friendliest extraterrestrial in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." [17 July 1981, p.B2]
Jan 3, 2020
My favourite romantic movie ever. Such a great and original emotional love story that moved me and made me cry so much. Endless Love is a misunderstood masterpiece among teen dramas.
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