alex pettyfer and gabriella wilde together

ALEX PETTYFER AND GABRIELLA WILDE TOGETHER MOVIE

ALEX PETTYFER AND GABRIELLA WILDE TOGETHER MOVIE

I supposed if someone had pitched it to me, as an actor, that I would get to work on a movie that shares (albeit on a terribly superficial way) the beats from Cameron Crowe’s 1989 masterpiece SAY ANYTHING.

There isn’t an original character in the entire film and most of the time we’re left wondering what, why, how these folks even came to be involved in this train wreck. Unfortunately for anyone who has seen his prior work the role is pretty much the same one he’s played in everything.Īs I started to say above, the plot for ENDLESS LOVE is so clichéd it’s almost offensive. Jade’s father Hugh Butterfield is played by Bruce Greenwood, the only actor who really, believably inhabits his role. All the while, Jade’s father is getting more and more upset at the changes in his daughter. From here on out we apparently are supposed to believe this short time together and created an immutable bond between them. Soon they are dating in a whirlwind montage that lasts about 5 minutes where we see them laughing and smiling, doing things together over a 7-10 day period. When they finally talk to each other, they supposedly have immediate chemistry though it’s hard to tell with the acting. Jade is a young woman who was very popular until one of her older brothers died of cancer, throwing her family into turmoil and causes her to withdraw from everything and everyone. Pettyfer displays the emotional range of a stovetop but he does really try to look sad – but it comes off like this – ‘I’m really sad! Can’t you see my pouty lip? Can’t you tell I’m so happy and look at my pouty lip?’ The center of David’s affections for a long time, though he has only admired from afar, is the waif-like Jade Butterfield (played by Gabriella Wilde). That’s all well and good but when you spend too much time filing off the rough edges you could easily end up with a finished product indistinguishable from every other movie of the genre like it.ĮNDLESS LOVE stars Alex Pettyfer (from MAGIC MIKE, 2012 and I AM NUMBER FOUR, 2011) as the young and troubled (but also saccharine sweet) David Elliot. Instead of keeping with that vein (which was actually somewhat before it’s time) this time the filmmakers decided to keep the loss of innocence without making the lead characters despicable.

This version of ENDLESS LOVE (2014) is notably watered-down and formulaic to the extreme, which was probably intentional given the original works were actually kind of glorified stalker/misogyny fairy-tales. Incidentally, the book was already adapted to film (in the early ‘90s) but if you remember that flick chances are this one wouldn’t be at all recognizable. All of these words fit new film ENDLESS LOVE to a tee.ĮNDLESS LOVE is actually an adaptation of a novel by the same name from 1979. Her family objects so she rebels for the first time in her life and suddenly the family’s world, which was hanging together by a thread, starts to fall apart. The beautiful, smart but withdrawn girl and the troubled, ‘from the wrong side of the tracks’ boy finally connect and fall head-over-heals in love with each other. We’ve all seen or heard the story dozens if not hundreds of times.

Alex pettyfer and gabriella wilde together