| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | TUCK EVERLASTING (2002) |
| Director | Jay Russell |
| Writer | Natalie Babbitt, Jeffrey Lieber, James V. Hart |
| Lead Actor | Alexis Bledel |
| Cast | Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, Sissy Spacek |
| Genre | Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance |
| Release Date | October 11, 2002 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 30m(90 min) |
| Budget | $10 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 6.6/10 |
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TUCK EVERLASTING
The ups and downs of immortality are lightly explored in this whimsical romance based on Natalie Babbitt’s juvenile novel. Winnie Foster (lovely Alexis Bledel of TV’s Gilmore Girls) is the teenage rebel heroine of this circa 1914 story.
In one of her petulant escapes from her stuffy parents, Winnie runs deep into the woods and encounters the Tucks, a mysterious family that refuses to let her leave. They fear she’s discovered their secret. Water they drank from a spring ensures they will never age or die they’re already over 100 years old.
In this love story Winnie falls for Jesse (Jonathan Jackson), the younger of the two brothers. Eventually she must decide (à la Brigadoon) whether to share his form of eternity or return to mortal life. That may sound like a no-brainer, but second thoughts rise easily, especially when Jesse says stuff like, “I’m going to be 17 until the end of the world!”
The Disney production enlists some Oscar winning talents to make it convincing. Sissy Spacek and William Hurt as the Tuck parents, Ben Kingsley as a mysterious stranger who hopes to seize the spring for himself. That is another downside to the situation. The magic spring could be bottled for big bucks by bad people.
A cleric teased by Kingsley thinks the whole idea is blasphemy. Indeed, living a natural life forever without God is shabby compared to the promise and hope of Christianity. On the film’s own unsophisticated level, Papa Tuck’s words to Winnie may put it best. “Don’t be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.” Pretty and thoughtful; satisfactory for youth and adults.
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