{ "id": "epdw0pv6dg", "slug": "endless-love-2014-film", "title": "Endless Love (2014 film)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.version-families", "label": "Shared-title version families", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.version-families" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.version-families.hollywood-classic-families", "label": "Classic Hollywood shared-title families", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.version-families.hollywood-classic-families" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "United States · 2001 to 2020: Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "path": [ { "id": "geo.us", "label": "United States", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001", "label": "United States · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Endless Love (2014), Shana Feste's romantic drama remake of the 1981 Brooke Shields film based on Scott Spencer's novel, starring Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde; grossed $34.7 million worldwide and was panned by critics.", "snippet": "Endless Love (2014), Shana Feste's romantic drama remake of the 1981 Brooke Shields film based on Scott Spencer's novel, starring Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde; grossed $34.7 million worldwide and was panned by critics.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.version-families.hollywood-classic-families", "markdown": "# Endless Love (2014 film)\n\n**Endless Love** is a 2014 American romantic drama directed by Shana Feste, a remake of the 1981 film of the same name and the second screen adaptation of Scott Spencer's 1979 novel. It stars [Alex Pettyfer](https://www.edgepedia.org/alex-pettyfer) as David Elliot, a working-class recent high school graduate, and [Gabriella Wilde](https://www.edgepedia.org/gabriella-wilde) as Jade Butterfield, a sheltered girl from a wealthy family, whose summer romance is opposed by Jade's father Hugh ([Bruce Greenwood](https://www.edgepedia.org/bruce-greenwood)). Distributed by Universal Pictures, the film opened on February 14, 2014, earned $34.7 million worldwide against a $20 million budget, and received generally unfavorable reviews.[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/69987-ENDLESS-LOVE) • [2](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2318092/) • [3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/endless-love/)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Director and writers | Shana Feste, co-written with Joshua Safran, based on Scott Spencer's 1979 novel[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/69987-ENDLESS-LOVE) |\n| Lead cast | Alex Pettyfer (David Elliot), Gabriella Wilde (Jade Butterfield), Bruce Greenwood (Hugh Butterfield), Joely Richardson (Anne Butterfield), Robert Patrick (Harry Elliot)[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/69987-ENDLESS-LOVE) |\n| Release | February 14, 2014 (Los Angeles and New York openings); PG-13; 103 minutes; Universal Pictures[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/69987-ENDLESS-LOVE) |\n| Box office | $23,438,250 domestic (67.5%), $11,279,923 international, $34,718,173 worldwide; $13,307,125 opening in 2,896 theaters; budget $20,000,000[2](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2318092/) |\n| Critical reception | Metascore 30 of 100 from 32 reviews (generally unfavorable); Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer 16% from 92 reviews, Popcornmeter 59% from over 25,000 ratings[3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/endless-love/) • [4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m//endless_love_2014) |\n| Production | Fake Empire and Bluegrass Films; producers Scott Stuber, Pamela Abdy, Josh Schwartz, and Stephanie Savage; music by Christophe Beck[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/69987-ENDLESS-LOVE) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nAfter their high school graduation, Jade Butterfield, a privileged teenager who has spent two years mourning the death of her older brother Chris, becomes involved with David Elliot, a working-class youth with a troubled past who works as a mechanic in his father's shop and valets at a country club.[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m//endless_love_2014) • [5](https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/endless-love-movie-review-another-80s-remake-thats-not-worth-revisiting/2014/02/12/fb24a03a-93eb-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html) The two fall quickly in love. Jade's father Hugh strongly disapproves of the relationship, while David's father Harry advises caution, and the parents' opposition makes the teens more determined to pursue the affair.[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m//endless_love_2014) Universal's synopsis adds that David's mysterious past and Hugh's interference threaten to tear the couple apart.[6](https://www.universalpicturesathome.com/movies/endless-love-2014)\n\n## Cast and production\n\nThe credited cast pairs Pettyfer and Wilde with Bruce Greenwood as Hugh Butterfield, Joely Richardson as Anne Butterfield, Robert Patrick as Harry Elliot, Rhys Wakefield as Jade's brother Keith, Dayo Okeniyi as David's friend Mace, and [Emma Rigby](https://www.edgepedia.org/emma-rigby) as Jenny.[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/69987-ENDLESS-LOVE) • [7](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/endless-love-2014) Andrew Dunn was the cinematographer, Maryann Brandon the editor, and Clay Griffith the production designer.[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/69987-ENDLESS-LOVE)\n\nThe production company Fake Empire, co-owned by television writer and producer [Josh Schwartz](https://www.edgepedia.org/josh-schwartz), had been reported as developing a remake as early as a February 2012 New York Times article cited by the [American Film Institute](https://www.edgepedia.org/american-film-institute)'s catalog of the 1981 film.[8](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/68205-ENDLESS-LOVE?cxt=filmography) The 2014 film was produced by Fake Empire with Bluegrass Films.[1](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/69987-ENDLESS-LOVE)\n\n## Relationship to the novel and the 1981 film\n\nThe 2014 film is the second adaptation of Spencer's novel, after [Franco Zeffirelli](https://www.edgepedia.org/franco-zeffirelli)'s 1981 melodrama starring [Brooke Shields](https://www.edgepedia.org/brooke-shields).[9](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/endless-love-2014) Critics noted how thoroughly the remake reworked its sources. Christy Lemire, writing at RogerEbert.com, observed that Feste and Safran \"reconfigured this story entirely,\" omitting the Oscar-nominated Lionel Richie and [Diana Ross](https://www.edgepedia.org/diana-ross) theme song associated with the 1981 film and the small role of an arsonist played by a young Tom Cruise.[7](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/endless-love-2014) Common Sense Media noted that in both the book and the 1981 adaptation the love story functions more as a study of obsession, a quality the 2014 version drops in favor of a conventional romance.[9](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/endless-love-2014) The Georgia Straight review likewise described the remake as bearing little more than a passing resemblance to Zeffirelli's film.[10](https://www.straight.com/movies/587726/endless-love-stays-predictable-start-finish)\n\nThe rating also marks a departure. The 1981 film was R-rated, was initially assigned an [X rating](https://www.edgepedia.org/x-rating) by the MPAA, and cost $14 million; the remake handled sexuality and drug use implicitly to secure a commercially more flexible PG-13 rating for its youthful target audience.[8](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/68205-ENDLESS-LOVE?cxt=filmography) • [11](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/movie-review-endless-love/) Lemire argued that the sanitizing extended to the partying itself, with characters discussing drinking and drug use without any depiction of their effects, a choice she read as aimed at securing the PG-13.[7](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/endless-love-2014)\n\n## Reception\n\n**Critical response was negative.** The film's Metascore of 30 on Metacritic, based on 32 critic reviews, falls in the site's \"generally unfavorable\" band, with 19 of the 32 reviews negative, 11 mixed, and 2 positive.[3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/endless-love/) On Rotten Tomatoes the Tomatometer stood at 16% from 92 reviews, while the audience Popcornmeter was substantially warmer at 59% from more than 25,000 ratings; the site's critics consensus calls the remake \"blander than the original\" and \"clichéd and unintentionally silly.\"[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m//endless_love_2014)\n\nIndividual reviews varied in emphasis. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly was the most favorable of the major outlets at 75, calling the film \"a solidly engaging neo-'50s romantic melodrama\" in Feste's hands.[3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/endless-love/) Manohla Dargis of The New York Times scored it 20, writing that the film \"doesn't have enough going on to make it memorably terrible: Banality is its gravest sin.\"[3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/endless-love/) David Edelstein of New York Magazine went further, calling it worse than the 1981 version.[3](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/endless-love/) Lemire wrote that the film feels like an extended advertisement for an idyllic lifestyle, tasteful and emotionally detached where the story of obsessive first love should carry a sense of something at stake, though she credited the veteran supporting actors Greenwood, Patrick, and Richardson with elevating the material.[7](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/endless-love-2014) The Washington Post's Stephanie Merry criticized the film for substituting kissing montages for character development, and noted it was one of three 1980s remakes opening that weekend, alongside RoboCop and About Last Night.[5](https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/endless-love-movie-review-another-80s-remake-thats-not-worth-revisiting/2014/02/12/fb24a03a-93eb-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html) Bill Wine of KYW Newsradio gave it 2.5 stars out of 4, calling it a passable romantic drama.[11](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/movie-review-endless-love/)\n\n## Box office\n\nThe film opened domestically on February 14, 2014, earning $13,307,125 in its first weekend across 2,896 theaters, its widest release.[2](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2318092/) It ran in domestic theaters through March 20, 2014, finishing with $23,438,250 in the United States and Canada, 67.5% of its total, and $11,279,923 internationally, for a worldwide gross of $34,718,173 against a $20 million production budget.[2](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2318092/) The United Kingdom was the largest international market at $2,864,318, followed by Australia at $1,778,065 and Germany at $994,781.[2](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2318092/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Endless Love (2014), AFI Catalog of Feature Films](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/69987-ENDLESS-LOVE)\n2. [Endless Love (2014), Box Office Mojo](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt2318092/)\n3. [Endless Love Reviews, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/endless-love/)\n4. [Endless Love (2014), Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m//endless_love_2014)\n5. [Stephanie Merry, \"'Endless Love' movie review: Another '80s remake that's not worth revisiting,\" The Washington Post, February 13, 2014](https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/endless-love-movie-review-another-80s-remake-thats-not-worth-revisiting/2014/02/12/fb24a03a-93eb-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html)\n6. [Endless Love (2014), Universal Pictures At Home](https://www.universalpicturesathome.com/movies/endless-love-2014)\n7. [Christy Lemire, \"Endless Love\" review, RogerEbert.com, February 14, 2014](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/endless-love-2014)\n8. [Endless Love (1981), AFI Catalog of Feature Films](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/68205-ENDLESS-LOVE?cxt=filmography)\n9. [Endless Love (2014) parents' guide, Common Sense Media](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/endless-love-2014)\n10. [\"Endless Love stays predictable start to finish,\" The Georgia Straight](https://www.straight.com/movies/587726/endless-love-stays-predictable-start-finish)\n11. 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