Rotten
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 Magazine
Endless Love
She is 15. He is 17. The love every parent fears.
1981 · 1h 56m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Franco Zeffirelli
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Endless Love
Overview
As their romance unfolds, Jade and David's growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade's father. However, when Jade's grades begin to drop, her father forbids the young couple from seeing each other for 30 days. Driven insane with frustration and desire, David attempts to reverse the decision, with catastrophic results.
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26%
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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
Rotten
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 and logical mess.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Anyone unfamiliar with the story of Scott Spencer's novel is bound to be mystified by Franco Zeffirelli's latest film, which reduces Endless Love to a whimperingly latter-day Romeo and Juliet with a little pyromania thrown in.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
As excruciating as the Diana Ross/Lionel Richie title tune.
Time Out
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