Reception
Despite being panned by numerous critics (movie historian Leonard Maltin called it "a textbook example of how to do everything wrong in a literary adaptation...Scott Spencer's deservedly-praised novel is thoroughly trashed."), Endless Love was a financial box office success. It grossed $31,184,024 in the U.S. alone (the 22nd highest grossing film of 1981).
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)