Written by James M. Tate / 2/26/2014 / No comments / 2014 , brooke shields , bruce greenwood , don murray , eighties , romance , shirley knight , tom cruise
BROOKE SHIELDS IN ENDLESS LOVE & ENDLESS LOVE REMAKE
year: 1981 rating: **1/2 |
Not of the political nature, but parental, since Don Murray’s Hugh Butterfield and his quirky wife Ann are the kind of throwback hippie parents who not only allow their teens Jade and Keith to have a raging party, but they themselves join in, smoking pot and making out in the midst of everyone...
So it should be no shock, providing that kind of free-spirited influence, that their daughter, played by the already iconic Brooke Shields… a beautiful young actress who was, by this time, after PRETTY BABY and THE BLUE LAGOON, an old hat at pushing the exploitation envelope… It's no surprise when Jade hooks up with Keith’s handsome new friend, a middle-class kid brought into the bourgeois family like an orphaned pup…Her steamy romance with Martin Hewitt’s David Axelrod is anything but subtle. The two have sex in the house after hours, and her parents know all about it – here's where the hook comes in: While mom, a sultry Shirley Knight and whose sexuality towards David is more interesting than Brooke's mannequin beauty, thinks her daughter's the windswept affair is absolutely fine, dad begins questioning his own open-mindedness and thus hands down a strict edict: neither kid can see each other for thirty… long… days...
Brooke Shields in love |
Tom Cruise's pointless Cameo |
Endless Love Ian Ziering Cameo |
And to note, unlike the clichĂ© strictly-romantic remake, reviewed below, poor dad isn’t able to complain too much or for very long. And what a shame... he’s the only character who eventually makes any logical sense. IN CLOSING: Tom Cruise sweats after a scrimmage football game, changes his shirt, and talks to David about... nothing, really... but his photos are also all over the Net while there are not Internet Captures of BEVERLY HILLS 90210 and SHARKNADO star Ian Ziering, as Brooke's younger brother (like on 90210, he's ten years younger than he looks). The picture above was a wide shot of the house's interior, and by the time you get in on the staircase, it's pixelated, and the photos below will further prove why no one bothered to show where Ian got his start... Take a look...
The only shot where he's close enough to see, Ian Ziering is coughing up fumes in a pivotal yet meaningless fire scene |
Ian Ziering In the dark again: For Google: Endless Love Ian Ziering Brooke Shields Ian Ziering Endless Love |
For anyone who doesn't believe here's proof Ian Ziering's in it, plus Tom Cruise and Jimmy Spader (pre-James) too |
Years before lecturing Brooke on medicine, Tom Cruise made a pre-fame cameo in her movie... |
year: 2014 rating: ** |
Well on the other side of the coin (or tracks) is a muscular, chisel-chinned guy named David who has, in dad’s opinion, extremely little to offer poor rich Jade Butterfield…
In the lead female role, Gabriella Wilde is the perfect aesthetic match for Alex Pettyfer‘s David… Despite the class issues, both have just graduated from the same high school, and within seconds she’s instantly smitten, even though when her dad’s raking in dough at the hospital, David’s old man gets greasy as a mechanic (then again he owns the garage)... But this isn’t the John Hughes universe so money doesn’t really matter – at least not to the young folks.
ENDLESS LOVE is based on the novel adapted into a 1981 Brooke Shields movie that garnered an even more popular song (and is the third 80’s reboot on the same weekend along with ROBOCOP and ABOUT LAST NIGHT)… But this version holds its very own featherweight, guilty pleasure camp value and doesn't try to be anything more than fluff… With a slight edge...
Fun melodramatic villain Bruce Greenwood |
The love story between the two leads is so forced, there's very little mystery and nothing to base the attraction on other than both being perfectly attractive… Imagining David's dreamy aspirations coming out of an ugly guy’s mouth would be like watching an action flick starring a 500 pound crippled blind man – and would a GQ stud waste his time on anyone besides a dainty supermodel?
ENDLESS LOVE is so packaged for young girls, there’s nothing left for anyone else except how down and dirty “dear old dad” gets… With a forced Ken and Barbie romance; a wasted subplot about a dead older brother (straight out of FOOTLOOSE); a weak side cast including Jade’s dizzy mom and a black comic relief who’s not one bit funny; and several catastrophes tying loose ends together, it takes our desperate antagonist to not only shape things up, but to give this ENDLESS any shape at all…
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