FILM · 2014 · USA
Endless Love
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- #001
The film's trailer included scenes that were altered or do not appear in the film.
- #002
Both leads are English.
- #003
Sarah Bolger, Olivia Cooke and Sophie Lowe auditioned for the role of Jade.
- #004
In the original film, Jade was 15 and David was 17, and they began dating after her brother Keith introduced them to each other; a subplot involved Ann falling in love with David and, after watching them have sex one night, living vicariously through him and Jade. David's surname was also Axelrod, changed here to Elliot, and Ann's name is spelled Anne.
- #005
It is a remake of the 1981 film.
- #006
There are many differences between the original and this remake. In Endless Love (1981), Keith hated David and hated the idea of David and Jade being together as a protective older brother. In this remake, Keith treats David far better and more helpfully, accepts him as his sister's boyfriend and sees him as the perfect man for her. In the original, it was Keith's actions that ruined David and Jade's relationship; here, in a sense, it is thanks to him that David and Jade end up together.
- #007
One of the album covers visible in several scenes in Chris Butterfield's bedroom in the later part of the film is Depeche Mode's Violator (1990).
- #008
Emma Roberts turned down the lead role; had she taken it, she would have worked again with Alex Pettyfer, having first appeared together in 'Wild Child'.
- #009
It is Alexandra Bartee's debut.
- #010
Both this version and the 1981 version differ significantly from the novel they are said to be based on. Spencer's 1979 'Endless Love' had many fans, and many were shocked to see the film version take a story involving mental illness, family dysfunction, stalking and destructive obsession and turn it into a teenage romance with a happy ending. In the novel, David is mentally ill, Jade is shallow and aimless, the Butterfields are falling apart, and the ending is not happy at all.
- #011
Brenton Thwaites auditioned for the role of David.
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