Product: Endless Love [VHS] (1981)
Rating: 4.0
Endless Hassle!
This was one of Brooke Shields best movie, which was also very touching along with the fact that Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt were steaming hot in this movie as well as a hot and heavy couple humping around that both Jades family didn't approve of.It was also intriguing watching Brooke Shields(Jade Buttefield) doing a couple of sexy lovemaking scenes with partial nudity, especially in Brooke Shields first sex scene with Martin Hewitt(David Axelrod))buck-naked and bare-assed in the living room when Jade's mother catches Jade and David making love by the fireplace showing us everything except Martin Hewitt's wang and Brooke Shields coochie, which was quite astonishing and touching by the way making you want to do those sorts of things with your loved one, whether you're married or not, especially hubba hubbba, especially when they showed Brooke Shields tatas and fanny as well as Hewitt's tushy & then Hewitt & Shields 2nd sex scene where David seduces Jade again in her bedroom shortly after Jade's father catches David in Jades room buck-naked & Jade in the hallway half-naked with no shame or embarassment whatsoever.Unfortunately, this drama flick becomes a sad story from the middle of the movie on since Jade's relationship with David ends up tearing Jade's family apart & their household upside down leading to nothing but trouble, anguish, distress, heartache, grief, & even tragedy & death, yet David still ends up doing a lot of stupid things to win Jade back instead of trying to move on with other girls and ends up doing those foolish things to win Jade back for basically nothing, since David ends up in a mental institution in the middle of the movie after he tries to burn Jade's house down & gets thrown back in the nuthouse again after David gets in a tussle with Jades brother Keith Butterfield(James Spader)after Jade's father dies off while jaywalking to clobber David, but Jade goes to the institute to go visit him, but Jade and David are both obviously still heart broken and distressed along with the fact that the end of the movie makes you want to cry, especially when they play the song "Endless Love" by Lionel Ritchie and Diane Ross, but you can't help admiring the intimacy between Jade and David in this tragic movie, which can even make you feel envious at times too, but this movie certainly makes a perfect example of the true meaning ENDLESS LOVE with both the title of this movie as well as the song sung by Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross.Something about this movie that didn't make a lot of sense that I could never understand is why did Jade's parents Hugh & Ann Butterfield(Donald Murray, Shirley Knight)allow Jade and David to sleep together, especially at their house all along until Jade started losing sleep and started going downhill at school, especially since Jade was only 15 years old and too young to be having sex in the first place.In other words why didn't Jade's folks take action a lot sooner by not ever allowing David to stay at their house in the first place and by not allowing Jade to see David anymore at all ever again after finding out that David and Jade had been sleeping together every night to one another & allowing David to sneak in & out in the middle of the night, plus Keith was supposed to be David's best friend who had introduced David to Jade and to the Butterfield family, yet Keith turns his back on David as soon as he discovers that David has been banging his sister & disolves his friendship with David in a heartbeat all of the sudden.Anyway, it was also interesting seeing James Spader and Tom Cruise in this movie, especially since it was before they were even stars.Since ENDLESS LOVE was such a big hit back in the Summer of 1981; I don't see why Universal is taking so long to put it on DVD USA for everyone else to be able to buy and watch, so PLEASE release this movie on DVD soon for America.This flick also takes me all the way back to memory lane to when we had all those budget cuts going on from the recession we had back in 1981-1982 when Ronald Reagan was the president.