Endless Love 1981

Critics score:
25 / 100

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Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Is Brooke Shields truly obsession worthy? And can she carry, commercially, another movie about another kind of obsession? The answer is no. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: 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. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more

Time Out: As excruciating as the Diana Ross/Lionel Richie title tune. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: 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. Read more