ENDLESS LOVE Original Daybill Movie Poster BROOKE SHIELDS Franco Zeffirelli

Endless Love (1981)

Directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

With Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray

Two young teenagers, Jade Butterfield and David Axelrod, fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for Jade’s bohemian parents. Her parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn’t work, David burns down the house and is sent to a mental hospital. This doesn’t stop him from seeing her. When he gets out, he goes to look for her and remains in love with her. But in the end, the passion for his first love is too strong and she has to leave or this love will kill both of them.