Tuck Everlasting (2002)

romance. mystery. a sweet lesson about purpose of life. a seductive cast. air of fairy tale. maybe, it is a not great movie. only touching,fragile,waft, delicate, decent play with a not new idea. that kind of film who remembers values and magic and the art of splendid actors without have spectacular ambition. because it is only a soup for soul soup , out of usual cages of melodrama. it seems be a song and the option for Alexis Bledel and Jonathan Jackson is really inspired in this sense. a nice film about a deep dream of each of us. a seductive theme, more important than small errors, and precise tools for give it brilliance.

Fmovies: Tuck Everlasting is an adaptation of an acclaimed book into a underwhelming film. It is set in the early 1900s, The Tuck family have drank from a stream which has made them immortal and they have no aged. Jesse Tuck looks 17 years old despite being 104. So far so Twilight without any vampires about.

A teenage girl from a well to do family Winifred stumbles into the stream and sees Jesse drinking from there and he in order to keep the stream secret abducts her and they fall for each other as she finds out the family's secret. Why he keeps on drinking from the stream is never explained.

Winnie's family feared that she is kidnapped falls prey to a mysterious man in a yellow suit who has been tracking down the Tucks as he seems to know about their secret as well.

In the end Winnie must decide whether she drinks from the fountain of youth or live a normal life.

The film has three Oscar winning actors in Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek and William Hurt. Kingsley brings a bit of malevolence as the man in the yellow suit. Scott Bairstow as Jesse's brother brings a bit of pathos regarding the curse of immortality as he saw his wife being driven mad.

The film is bland and subdued. Its a bare bones story which does not work as a love story or a mystery. You have to applaud Twilight for making more from similar ingredients as it actually dealt better with a man trapped in a youth's body for decades, repeating high school every few years, not getting too close with people as they will one day age and die. Here you question what has the Tuck family done with their lives given they are immortal apart from just living life in the backwoods.

Like many other people on this website, I myself had to read the novel upon which this film is based when I was in the sixth grade. I really can't remember it that much, but seeing the movie brought some of it back to me.

The movie strays from Babitt's novel in some ways, as the "love" between two central characters is romanticized slightly. Otherwise, the story is not changed all that much, but there are still a few minor changes to the story that I could remember.

Most of the cast was perfect. Ben Kingsley fits the role of The Man in the Yellow Suit pretty well. Out of place kinda are Sissy Spacek and William Hurt who have the minority roles in this film. They were still quite good, though.

The story flows nicely, but there were still a few scenes that were different as I had envisioned. I pictured the Treegap Constable having a bigger role, and I also envisioned there to be more 19th century costume and prop designs. Just some things to be kept in mind when the next remake of this novel comes out in another thirty years or so.

TUCK EVERLASTING: 4/5.

Tuck Everlasting fmovies. Make no mistake: this is a nice movie, but it's one of those films you can't help but feel could have been so much better.

The first 20 minutes was very promising with spectacular scenery, overall cinematography and interesting characters. But, it started to slow down and then just bogged down more and more with a teen romance. Yes, it finished fairly well but unless you are a teen or 20-something young woman, I doubt this film will hold your interest.

Perhaps even for some women, this movie did not turn out as dramatically as it should have been. It's just too flat. Too bad; it looked like a "keeper' for awhile.

Even though Disney does have some very bad movies out there, there are still ones that are excellent. Tuck Everlasting was such a great film. The acting was great. William Hurt, Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek, Jonathan Jackson, Scott Bairstow, Amy Irving, Victor Garbor, Alexis Bledel are excellent in this movie. They are all such good actors/ actresses. The scenery was just beautiful. The music was very very pretty. I never read the book and I know there are probably changes in it from the movie, but as a movie lover I loved ever minute of it. This movie is for everyone. I recommend this movie to anyone who loves a good Disney movie or just a good family movie.

Winnie Foster(Alexis Bledel) is a free spirited young girl who is sick of living a boring life with her rich strict parents and one night after an argument with her parents Winnie runs away. She gets lost in a forest and stumbles upon Jesse(Jonathon Jackson). His family now takes Winnie with them because she has discovered a secret. That the Tuck's are immortal and that she can never ever tell anybody about that. Winnie and Jesse fall in love, and now Winnie must choose, will she go on and live her life like she is supposed to, or will she become immortal just like Jesse and spend forever with him? I thought this was a very beautiful movie, it is not just for kids like many people say. I think the whole family could enjoy this movie, it questions a lot of things people wonder about these days and it's just a really great magical fairytale. I would give Tuck Everlasting 10/10