Endless Love **
Dir: Shana
Feste. With: Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Bruce Greenwood. 103 min. Cert:
12A
Scott Spencer’s 1979 novel
first inspired a downbeat Brooke Shields vehicle, remembered solely for its
sappy Lionel Richie/Diana Ross title song; it’s now been redressed by Gossip Girl’s producers as a glossy,
Nicholas Sparks-ish wallow. Scruffy, bum-chinned plank Alex Pettyfer is its
improbably noble blue-collar dreamboat; Gabriella Wilde the uptown girl he
woos, to her overprotective pop’s chagrin. A certain doofy sincerity – all
fairylights and lakeside kisses – and Wilde’s nervy, natural responses keep
matters semi-watchable. As a romance, though, it’s literally by-the-book,
poring at needless length over pages liberally flecked with bullshit, and
thereby giving another generation of sleepover guests some very skewed ideas
about their male contemporaries.
Endless Love is in cinemas nationwide.
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