Endless Love (1981)

I remember reading the book about 4 years ago and really liked it so if I forgot something from it I apologize. I understand that certain things in the movie must change from the book but sadly it you make changes the change has to make sense. This didn't happen.1. These two leads are terrible! I can honestly say that Edward and Bella had more things to say than this. They at least had a conversation about science together. David and Jade just like saying how much they love each other and how they couldn't be apart from one another. That's it. There is no character development from them and no reason for them to stay together. Plus no offense to the actors but there not good at playing these roles. Maybe it's the directors fault but it still is terrible. David is unpleasant to watch which was part of the book but they should have at least made him understanding enough for the audience which sadly he isn't and makes his role as leading male disturbing. Jade is just a whiny teenage girl that I've seen before.2. The side characters are obnoxious and eerie to watch. The dad is totally crazy, the mother is honestly one of the more frightening mother roles I've ever seen, the other characters are dull and the only one who deserves the one star I'm giving this movie is James Spader. He did a pretty good performance for what he was given.3. The story is just a mess of problems. Why didn't the dad throw David off his property since technically he was trespassing and refusing to leave? Why did the judge say he couldn't contact Jade yet David is seen sending her letters? Why didn't the dad do anything when he saw naked David in his daughters room and then she went in with only a towel on? Yeah, motivations in this movie are apparently just silly myths.This could've been a good movie. I could see potential behind it but sadly this movie fell flat on its face. The romance doesn't work, the characters don't work and sadly the story doesn't work. When those three things don't work in a romance movie you sadly have a bad movie.

Endless Love (1981) ** (out of 4)Insane love story about teenage lovers, the 15-year-old Jade (Brooke Shields) and the 17-year-old David (Martin Hewitt), who are forced apart by her father and soon the boys obsession turns to tragedy. I really, really, really wanted to like ENDLESS LOVE. In fact, this was at least my third viewing of wanting to love this movie but it's hopeless because sadly the movie is just a complete mess from start to finish. I've heard that the novel is something truly terrific but all of that has been lost in this feature that is so heavy-handed and at times so crazy that you can't help but wonder if director Franco Zeffirelli was wanting to create something bad. I'm really not sure where to start but I guess we can begin with the story, which just never makes any sense. The movie has one dumb sequence after another and it contains some of the dumbest and most unexplained characters that you're ever going to meet. So, daddy gives pot, alcohol and throws wild parties on school nights yet he flips out when he discovers that his daughter is in love? Her mother catches them having sex in front of the fireplace and decides to just sit there and watch? David decides to have a complete mental breakdown after accidentally burning his loved ones house down yet he doesn't seem to know what the big deal is. Then there's the ending, which I won't ruin or should I say the at least three endings that really don't close anything up. Oh yeah, and lets not forget the sex scenes, which are so incredibly laughable that you wonder what the director was thinking.ENDLESS LOVE should have been a good movie as the story of pain, losing the one you love and redemption are things that make for an interesting story. Everything here is just handled so poorly that you can't help but laugh at just about every scene. The movie never makes any real sense. It never explains why these two are so strongly connected. It never explains anything. As a fan of bad movies I can't help but have a certain fondness for this movie because it reaches of level of insanity to where it becomes so bad that it's good. The film contains weirdness unlike any other movie and the entire thing is just so heavy in regards to the "love" of these two people that it really kills the movie even more. Both Shields and Hewitt have a lot of problems with their performance as they never really pull them off or make them believable. Shirley Knight is good as the mother, Don Murray is over-the-top as the father and we even get James Spader and Tom Cruise in brief parts.The one scene that works is when the title song is first played and we see the two fall in love. This sequence is about the only thing that comes off as good and of course you've got the Lionel Richie and Diana Ross song to close things out. ENDLESS LOVE is a film that desperately needs to be remade.

God Bless my Uncle Duffy Piccini who was an actor in this movie! My mother (Duffy's sister) had taken me and my younger brother to see it in the movies when it came out. We loved the movie and seeing him in it with his credits at the end. Mom and uncle have since passed on. Thanks to my sister Valerie and brother Steven for sharing this link with me! Charlie and Jamie BellaViaThis is a great movie complete with awesome score! Has been an all time favorite through time for all generations.Yayyyyy!!!!! !!! :)

I can't believe this movie got made. It's so awful, and it's not awful in the typical way. It's just messed up. It's not messed up because the family is hippie-ish and whatnot, it's messed up because the characters in it do not act in any rational way whatsoever. The mother watches her fifteen year old daughter have sex and she enjoys it, the boyfriend lights the family house on fire after seeing the girl hold hands with another person, the mother comes onto the daughter's boyfriend, the father has this bizarre over-attachment to his daughter (he seems jealous about the daughter having a boyfriend). It's sick, twisted, and wrong.It may have been based on a good book, but you can't tell from watching it.