Endlose Liebe (1981)

Endlose Liebe: Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. With Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray. A high-school student’s love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance, and accident; he burns down her family’s house and is committed to a psychiatric hospital.

“Based on the praised novel of the same name, this film deals with the obessive love between two teenagers during a span of about 5 years. With all the talent behind this, including the director, Brooke Shields, and the source of the material you would think this would be a terrific movie, but donu0026#39;t be fooled. It is awful. The two leads are OK, but the rest of the cast just hams it up in a most embarrasing way, the script is really lumpy, the editing perfectly awful, and the direction nowhere near as good as the directors previous efforts (which include Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew). Some people may find it good on a so bad its good level. Others beware. My rating: 3 out of 10. (because the title song is excellent)”