Endless Love

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Endless Love

film by Zeffirelli [1981]

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Tom Cruise
Breakout roles in the 1980s
…made his film debut in Endless Love (1981). He had supporting roles in such movies as Taps (1981) and The Outsiders (1983) before starring as a high-school senior who turns his parents’ home into a brothel in Risky Business (1983). The movie was a major success, earning Cruise widespread recognition.…
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…made his film debut in Endless Love (1981). He had supporting roles in such movies as Taps (1981) and The Outsiders (1983) before starring as a high-school senior who turns his parents’ home into a brothel in Risky Business (1983). The movie was a major success, earning Cruise widespread recognition.…
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James Spader
…in Franco Zeffirelli’s teen drama Endless Love, in which he played the brother of Brooke Shields’s character. In 1983 he appeared as Fenwick in the television pilot for Diner—an adaptation of the previous year’s coming-of-age film of the same name—but the series never sold.
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…in Franco Zeffirelli’s teen drama Endless Love, in which he played the brother of Brooke Shields’s character. In 1983 he appeared as Fenwick in the television pilot for Diner—an adaptation of the previous year’s coming-of-age film of the same name—but the series never sold.
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