Overwiew :This debut film for Tom Cruise is based on the best selling novel by Scott Spencer, this is an erotic, passion-soaked drama starring Brooke Shields as the obsession of boyfriend next-door Martin Hewitt. Their young love is so overwhelming that it starts to concern Brooke's parents, who try to separate them. The distraught boyfriend ends up setting Brooke's house on fire and is never allowed to see her again. It's a terrible thing, this flame of youthful passion, but each flicker is perfectly captured by director Franco Zeffirelli's operatic eye.
