Endless Love

Director: Shana Feste, Joshua Safran Shana Feste

Overview

In this adaptation of the 1979 novel by Scott Spencer, passion yields to tragedy when the parents of a privileged girl (Gabriella Wilde) attempt to thwart her heated romance with a handsome valet (Alex Pettyfer).

Product Details

Release Date:	05/27/2014
UPC:	0025192212895
Original Release:	2014
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:45:00
Sales rank:	42,972

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Alex Pettyfer	David Axelrod
Gabriella Wilde	Jade Butterfield
Bruce Greenwood	Hugh Butterfield
Robert Patrick	Harry Elliot
Rhys Wakefield	Keith Butterfield
Dayo Okeniyi	Mace
Emma Rigby	Jenny
Joely Richardson	Anne Butterfield
Anna Enger	Jade Butterfield
Fabianne Therese	Checka
Mike Bland	Harry's Friend
Jake Schultz	Harry's Friend
Jeff Pope	Actor
Zechariah Pierce	Waiter
Ryan Lewis	Maserati Driver
Dan Triandiflou	Manager
Stephanie Northrup	Dawn
Andrew Masset	Joe
Patrick Johnson	Actor
Alexa Rachelle	High School Girl
Jonathan Velazquez	Party Boy
Marie Burke	Actor
Danielle Rodas	Dancing Party Girl
Tallie Brinson	Dancing Party Boy
William Henry Milne	Boy in Pool
Sonia Rose	Girl in Pool
Joey Nappo	Charlie
Jimmy Gonzales	Cop
Michelle S. Brzenk	Hospital Receptionist
Sharon Conley	Dr. Nesbitt
Matthew Withers	Miles
Alexandra Bartee	Kelly
Jon Menick	Professor
Nelson Bonilla	TSA Agent
Nathan Standridge	TSA Agent
Skip D. Welch	Fire Lieutenant
Judith Weston	Pastor
Tim Davies	Conductor
Shana Feste	Actor
Christophe Beck	Actor,Composer
Pamela Abdy	Actor
Stephanie Savage	Actor
Joshua Safran	Actor
Josh Schwartz	Actor
Scott Stuber	Actor
Kristi Lauren	Actor
Drama	Actor

Technical Credits

Shana Feste

Joshua Safran

Shana Feste	Director,Screenwriter
Joshua Safran	Screenwriter,Director
Stephanie Savage	Producer
Josh Schwartz	Producer
Pamela Abdy	Producer
Scott Stuber	Producer
Tracy Falco	Executive Producer
J. Miles Dale	Executive Producer
Kimberly Davis-Wagner	Casting
Justine Baddeley	Casting
Keith Bilderbeck	Sound Effects
Mary H. Ellis	Sound Mixer

Editorial Reviews

Endless Love is a film for teens, so nobody in its target demo will probably care that it's a remake of a 1981 movie that starred Brooke Shields. For the record, though, this version is nowhere near as bonkers as the original, in which moms spied with satisfied approval on their daughters having sex and people were accidentally killed and wrongly institutionalized left and right. If you're hoping for some over-the-top operatic madness, 2014's Endless Love doesn't have what you're looking for. But if you're in the mood for a very, very earnest drama about 18-year-olds being soul mates, you've come to the right place. The story is simple: David Elliot (Alex Pettyfer) has always had a thing for Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde), but somehow never managed to speak to her throughout all of high school. In fairness, most of their graduating class didn't really know her. This might have something to do with Jade's rich, clichéd, domineering father (Bruce Greenwood), who sees nothing wrong with his teenage daughter starting college despite having zero experience socializing with her peers. Nor does he foresee any conflict when he lines up Jade's entire educational career when she's only 17, setting her up with a medical internship the summer before she starts as a freshman in the premed program at Brown. Of course, it could be relevant that Jade's older brother died of cancer some years back and her dad never quite got over it. So when Jade and David hit it off right after graduation, Dad is none too pleased. He's incensed when they participate in a montage of sharing one bicycle and kissing in the rain, and even madder when Jade says she wants to skip her internship in order to spend more time with David. We soon wonder if Jade's father has totally lost his moral compass, and if he'll resort to reprehensible measures to stop them from being together. Except we're not really wondering, because clearly the premise of the movie is that he will. This isn't high art: It's young-love-sploitation, Twilight without the vampires. And in that sense, Endless Love is right on the mark. Stories have been capitalizing on the explosive sense of urgency offered by teenage romance since Romeo and Juliet, and while this movie isn't exactly a work of fine literature, it's an adequate foray into the genre. However, if 2014's Endless Love had included all of the criminal convictions and accidental deaths of the original, it might have bared a closer resemblance to Shakespeare.