How does the movie end? - Endless Love (2024)

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Saw it origianlly in the theatres. Caught the tail end of it on cable recently. Watched only to see if it was in fact as bad as I remember (Answer: Yes).

Anyway, in the part I saw, Jade is trying to say goodye forever to David, he seems to be accepting it grudgingly, then as she's walking out for good he grabs her violently and wrestles her onto the bed shouting about he won't let her go, that he KNOWS she still loves him etc. You can't quite tell if it's a rape or not. But I guess it's not, because then she breaks down and admits that it's true, she does love him. They kiss passionately.

Next scene is in the hotel or apartment house lobby, I assume moments later. Jade's brother accuses David of killing their father. A fight breaks out, the cops are called and they drag David away while he's protests his innocence, screaming that it was an accident.

Last scene shows David in some sort of institution - you can't quite tell if it's reform school or minimum security prision or an asylum. He peers out the barred windows and sees Jade approaching apparently for a visit. And so, it becomes somewhat clear that theirs was in fact an endless love.

You must like this movie - that's why you're interestd in the ending, but I say: YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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As i recall, was the end sequence with David looking out the bars to Brooke Shields not a mirage? I remember feeling sad at the end of the movie so can't recall if it was just him imagining her appearing. Didn't she just fade in when he was looking out the window? Haven't seen it for about 10 years of course, so not sure.

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You remind me of the end of Blow when Depps visit with his daughter is in fact a fantasy/halucination. Don't recall Shields' image fading away to indicate she wasn't really there. That would be in contradiction to the Endless Love theme. Unless it was one sided.

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In the scene preceding this one that everyone is argueing, or rather, discussing Jade asked her mother what to do. Her mother simply says that she has to make a choice. Either move on with your life or stay with David. She would not have gone to him had she choose to move on.

With her going to David, and the Endless Love Theme playing in the background, it is obvious of her intention, to be with David. She will most likely support him with his parole violations and court actions, etc. But now she will be with him through it, he will not have to be sad anymore. Nice ending to an nice movie, IMHO.

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So, because of that, I don't think Jade is really going to be with him and renew their endless love, but rather she is just giving him the time of day because she knows how much he has cared for her and loved her and how much he will always love and care for her.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Jade IS still with him. You even get the impression that this is not the first time she has gone to see him (she probably goes every day). She never stopped loving him that's the reason the title of the book/movie is Endless Love. Get it? ;)

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I just finished reading the book. And the movie totally butchered everything in that book. The book is way better. And, also, in the end, Jade is not still with him.

Gosh, I read the book SO long ago. Heck, it's been quite a while since I've even seen the movie. but I was in love with it to no end. I agree, though, that the book was better. I was just so excited to see the book filmed and those characters up there on the screen, that I just stopped thinking about how much better the book really was. Seems like I do remember a different, sadder ending in the book. I think they tried to give the movie something a little more "up-beat", though they needn't have bothered. Why can't they just film what's in the novel, ending and all? Endless Love would be a great movie to re-make, since they're making all these re-makes these days (some of them not even as old as Endless Love).

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I agree, I remember reading the novel many years ago and being just heartbroken at the end. I think in the novel, which is so different from the movie, he did end up going crazy, didn't he? But I didn't feel him to be crazy when he was put away the first time, after the fire. I didn't really understand why he set that fire. I mean I remember him thinking he'd end up being a hero but I just didn't get why he had to take such drastic measures. Maybe he was crazy.

I never did understand in the movie how she could just never write to him or find anything out about him and how he was doing. I thought she loved him just as much as he loved her (the movie) but I guess not. It was confusing. But then at the hotel she claimed she didn't stop loving him.

I was very young when the movie came out but I do remember being just blown away by the parties, etc., that the parents had with their kids and teenage friends. Such a far cry from what my parents were like! I would have wanted to hang around them too! :)

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David sets the fire to the house so he can "rescue" the family & become a hero in their eyes, hopefully to win himself back into the family. The fire becomes so out of control he ends up burning the house down instead, which was not his intention. That's why he is "put away" in the mental hospital. He thought the wet newspapers would just smoke alot.
In both the book & movie Jade makes no attempt to contact David at all. I agree with you, I would think she would at least get in touch with him with a letter or in touch with someone who knows him to see how he is. But she doesn't. She was supposed to be madly in love with him as he is with her.
The last line of the book states: "I see your face (Jade) in every seat (crowd)". Which basically says at the end of the book he is still in love & obsessed with her. Which makes the end very sad & depressing. He will not or cannot move on.

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who was the author of the book. I have only seen the movie and I loved it. It brings me to tears 25 years later

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I think were supposed to determine ourselves what happens between them. All you see is her walking up towards the building where David is (whether its jail or the institution) and i think its up to us whether we feel they get back together or not. I think their both seriously ill though and should be locked in institutions for the rest of their lives! Endless love?! try endless insanity!

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The brother should B in the nut house, not David, the brother was always funking things up. I like to see him end!

Spoiler alert for them spoil sports out there! Y'all like spoiled milk, stop crying over it!