This is my first American romantic drama I watched in cinema. I still remembered in that cinema (no longer existed now), K took our high school buddies to enjoy this movie, he was so nice to us:).
At that time, I also got the chance to watch a lot of movies in this cinema - Endless love, ET...... I need to get my memories back !! But this movie is easy to remember, for the song is good listening, the actress was beautiful, and I still remembered their names in the movie - Jade and David.
From wiki.
Endless Love is a 1981 American romantic drama film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt. The screenplay by Judith Rascoe was adapted from the novel by Scott Spencer. The original music score was composed by Jonathan Tunick.
It was the third highest publicity film of Brooke Shields after Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon. Given the somewhat high critical opinion of Franco Zeffirelli and the source novel, the film was considered especially disappointing, although there was advance feeling that the sensibilities of Zeffirelli were a poor match for this book.
Plot summary
In suburban Chicago, Jade Butterfield and David Axelrod, both teenagers, fall in love. Their consuming, passionate love becomes dangerously obsessive, especially for David. Jade's family is known in their community for a bohemian lifestyle; they allow the two to make love in Jade's bedroom. In contrast to the openness of her family, David's home life is dull; his parents are radical political activists who ignore him. One night, Jade's mother, Ann sneaks downstairs and, upon seeing Jade and David make love in her living room, she starts living vicariously. Jade's father, Hugh, watches the couple with increasing unease. Eventually, he catches her in the act of trying to steal a sleeping pill so that she can get some sleep and realises that her regular sexual encounters with David are depriving her of sleep and badly affecting her grades at school. Subsequently, he firmly tries to persuade David to stop seeing Jade until the start of the school holidays in a month's time. Although David is heavily opposed to this idea, Ann gently coaxes him into agreeing, telling him not to let her husband "do something he'll regret". Not long later, David accidentally burns down the Butterfields' house. For this, he is sent to a mental hospital for the next two years and is forbidden to contact Jade ever again.
When David is released on parole, he goes to look for Jade and remains obsessed with her. In Manhattan, Jade's mother tries to seduce David, but he refuses and tells her that he can make love only with Jade. In a chance meeting, Jade's father is hit and killed by a car after running into the street to chase after David. Later, Jade goes to see David to bid her goodbyes but David doesn't let her go and Jade admits that she still loves him. The two rejoin their love together. When Keith tells David and Jade to come downstairs, he tells Jade that David is at fault for their father's death. Jade refuses to believe this, and talks to David for the truth. David tries to explain to Jade that this was an accident, but when his first words come out, Jade is so shocked that she won't listen and doesn't get a chance to hear the truth. Keith pulls David over and fights with him through the motel, and David is arrested by the police. Sent to prison, David seems doomed never to see his beloved again. Jade, though, comes to realize that no one will ever love her like David does and goes to him.
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