The story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant
desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to
keep them apart.
Stars: Gabriella Wilde,
Alex Pettyfer,
Bruce Greenwood|
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Storyline:
The story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant
desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to
keep them apart.
User Reviews:
Though
"Endless Love" feels like a rehash of "The Notebook" (as if one were
needed), it's actually a remake of a long-forgotten film from 1980,
starring Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt, based on the novel by Scott
Spencer. In fact, if that film is remembered at all, it's probably as
much for the drippy, inexplicably popular title song (sung by Diana Ross
and Lionel Ritchie) as for the movie itself (it also marked the screen
debut of Tom Cruise, which gives it some historical significance).
This
is another of those dime-a-dozen romances between two kids from
opposite sides of the tracks (as always, the adolescents are portrayed
by actors long out of their teens). Jade is a poor-little-rich-kid who's
just graduated high school and is about to embark on a promising career
in medicine. David, on the other hand, is all ready to set up life as a
mechanic in his dad's garage. The movie has to find a way to explain
how the beautiful Jade, who would clearly be the most popular girl in
any high school in the United States, just happens to be the least
popular girl at this one. Turns out Jade's brother died of cancer a few
years back and she's been isolating with her family ever since.
"Endless
Love" lines up its cast of stereotypes in dutiful fashion: the snooty
rich folk, the jealous exes, the super-supportive mother and brother,
the wisecracking sidekick, and the over-protective, elitist dad who
fairly drips with disdain for the lower social orders, of whom David is a
prime example, and who will stop at nothing to keep such a boy from
marrying his daughter.
Jade is such a dreamy-eyed dolt and David
such a paragon of dime-novel romance that it becomes impossible for us
to identify with either one of them as actual people. Even David's
allegedly troubled background seems gussied-up and phony, a bit of back
story tacked on to make him more relatable to the audience. It doesn't
work.
Riddled with cheesy dialogue and ridiculous plot points,
especially in the melodramatic finale, this sappy, white-bread take on
"Romeo and Juliet" (minus the poetry, of course) scrapes the bottom of
the barrel as far as recent movie romances go. Though, come to think of
it, at least they dropped that dreadful song. That's at least one point
in the movie's favor.
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