Endless Love (1981) [DVD]

This movies outdated but still better then the new one.Great coming of age with a TRUE LOVE.But it has a lot of getting high with the family??? Hippie life…Very open family lol if you ask me. But based on the early 70s Always loved Brooke Shields this is one of Her Best Movies besides Blue LagoonOther then that You’ll hear the original version of The Endless love song by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross at the End. Omg my sister use to play that record late 70s almost 80s I think we graduated in 81-& 83 she had a boyfriend who was an Endless Love break up good & Bad like the movie.It is definitely a tear jerker.

Very basic movie, love the music.... Endless Love!!

I used to watch romance movie all the time, feeling my life has been full of romance(s), just doesn't interest me in watching movies as such. I tell you what...if you are or against romantic love stories, this STILL is such a great movie! About a young couple as described torn apart due to lenient forms of parenting and then ceasing to allow the young man around the daughter. I couldn't believe the ways he tried to just see her and be with her and honestly you won't regret watching this movie unless you just don't like movies at all! Has romance, drama, fighting, moral issues, just an older movie and a looking back at older movies and the acting aspect of it, this is well made and love the actors.

I had not seen this movie since I was a 15 year old myself. I found it to be very romantic then and obsessed about it a bit (wish someone could love me that much, etc.). Watching it now about 30 years later, I still think it was a well done movie but obviously the perspective as a viewer has changed. The intensity of what Jade and David were feeling was overwhelming and perhaps if they had the obstacles that many of us had (i.e., not being able to have sex in our childhood bedrooms!) then perhaps the feelings would have been less intense and more manageable. Who knows right? What I do know and can see was that both kids had parents that were not extremely engaged in their lives. One set (Jade's) thought they were, by hanging with them and their friends, smoking joints, live band parties until all hours, etc. The other were involved in their career (David's mom) and experiencing the end their flailing marriage that they allowed another family to take their place in David's life (have to say that I did dig David's Dad's sensibility about his son but a well meaning atta boy here and there was clearly not enough for the boy). A lot of reviews of this movie blame Jade's mother Ann squarely for her permissive attitude but I believe that her father Hugh was equally if not more so a part of the problem. Hugh was OK permitting the kids to drink wine, smoke joints and stay up until all hours but when it came to his little girl being a sexual person, he drew a line. I understand all is not black and white in parenting but you have to have some type of consistency in the way that you think and in what you permit as a parent in your home, otherwise you have no credibility as a parent and become a hypocrite (which Jade does call him out on). I'm a parent too, so I'm not saying the parents caused this problem but they fueled what it ended up becoming by being imperfect people, which is c'est la vie. Bad Ann for trying to seduce David fresh out of the mental hospital (thumbs up to the typo about David having "metal problems"--old metalhead here lol) but again, she is a flawed being, admitting dismay when she states that she's "sounding like a mother". The end shows David behind bars and then cuts to Jade, obviously older, crossing the street. Is she crossing to go visit David? Is this just a parallel shot (show him, then show her, time has passed)? Who knows but Zeffirelli's direction, lighting, etc. was well done and this movie is thought-provoking.Glad I rented it on Instant Video, don't necessarily want a DVD to watch over and over, was just curious if I would enjoy this as an adult and I can honestly say that I did and got so much more from it. It's amazing how watching something from your youth sometimes still evokes the original emotions though, doesn't it? The immaturity of the main characters (particularly David) caused the intense and over the top reactions (remembering the off-handed comment about lighting wet newspapers on fire, the beginning of David's downfall, reminds us of the suggestibility of a young mind) to what was going on because of the hugeness of what they were feeling. Oh to have the intensity tempered with maturity, dangerous indeed I would be. :-)

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We have seen lots of Brooke Shields over the years, including a new doc about the star, but her Endless Love costar, Martin Hewitt, pretty much vanished. In an exclusive interview on the blu ray we get to hear Hewitt recall the film and his role in it.

I have seen this movie several times & it REALLY bugs me!!!! Mostly, I feel VERY sorry for David. Falling for a beautiful girl (his friend's sister), becoming intimate, having a place to BE intimate, becoming attached to her family, & then having it ripped away- at 17.......cruel & heartless. Yes, they should have taken it slower, but these things happen ALL THE TIME. And yes, the girl was not getting sleep & doing poorly in school, but they should have had a talk with both of them & RESTRICTED their time together- NOT taken it away for a long time! (a month is a LONG time for young people) The girl's parents are POOR role models- that's what makes it EVEN worse! The dad is volatile & the mom is a weirdo. They should have had a sit-down with David's parents to get them in the loop & figure out a sensible solution. JEEZ! David should NOT have lit a fire, obviously, but he paid a HIGH price for admitting what he did. It was stupid but not malicious as he thought he had it under control. WHY did he have to stay in the nut house for TWO years????? Poor thing. And yes he was dumb for trying to contact Jade when he got out as it violated his parole- he could have done this in a better way- and I just remembered that his own dad EGGED HIM ON to spend lots of time with her because THOSE are the memories that are special- not what grades you get! WTF?????? AND Hugh chose to run out in the street- it was his fault he died. David has all the bad luck that he could possibly get. I never knew if Jade was actually visiting him in jail or the nut house or wherever he was at the end of the movie, but at least her mom told her that she needed to decide for herself what to do. The look on her face makes me think she really was going to see him- but as a last goodbye? The look on his face seems he is happy that she is coming- but it could be a daydream or mirage. Well, I am going to hope that they did visit & got back together. Their love was so intense.........yes there is a book but movies can change things. And yes this is FICTION, yet I get so into it!!! A gorgeous couple none-the-less. The acting was not great & the song Endless Love is SO bad & runs ENDLESSLY as background music! UGH & LOL