![]() ![]() Though she also observes how living forever has its drawbacks: Miles is angry because he can’t die while his beloved wife and kids who deserted him for being a freak, died from old age refusing to drink the magical water Angus feels he has become dead like a rock and is watching life go by in an unnatural way. She and Jesse naturally fall in love in an innocent Disney way, and she sees how nurturing and warm-hearted family life can be. Winnie is treated with love by the Tucks and is shown how the eternals live the easy life without a worry about dying. ![]() Running away in the woods she stumbles upon Jesse drinking some of that refreshing Ponce de Leon water (why he’s still gulping the magical water down when only one shot of it does the trick, is a mystery to me!), and when his sullen brother Miles moseys on by - the girl is brought to the Tucks’ log cabin hidden in the woods because he’s afraid she’ll blab about their secret. Their only child is a frustrated 15-year-old girl, Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel), who rebels against her overbearing parents (Amy Irving and Victor Garber) for not allowing her to have any fun, to never go outside alone beyond the house’s iron gates, and insisting she attends an exclusive boarding school in faraway Pittsfield to learn how to be a proper lady. The wealthiest and most uptight family in Treegap are the Fosters, who own the whole forest and exploit the land to gain their wealth. It’s a charming story, but everything looks so manufactured and feels so blah that it’s easy to ignore its moral dilemma raised and its make-believe inoffensive love story as being just so much horse feathers and artificial melodrama. Angus (Hurt) is the father, Mae (Spacek) the mother, the oldest son is Miles (Bairstow), and the youngest lad is the good-looking 17-year-old who should be 104, Jesse (Jackson). The film ends up asking the viewer: If given a chance to become an immortal, would you take it? The story centers around the good-natured hillbilly Tuck family, living in complete freedom and isolation in the woods in an upstate New York community called Treegap, who accidentally drank in the early years of the 19th century from a spring of water and found they were made eternal–frozen in time from the moment they drank from the spring. ![]() Carter editor: Jay Lash Cassidy music: William Ross cast: Alexis Bledel (Winnie Foster), Jonathan Jackson (Jesse Tuck), Amy Irving (Mother Foster), Victor Garber) (Robert Foster), Sissy Spacek (Mae Tuck), William Hurt (Angus Tuck), Ben Kingsley (Man in the Yellow Suit), Scott Bairstow (Miles Tuck), Richard Pilcher (Constable) Runtime: 88 MPAA Rating: PG producers: Marc Abraham/Jane Startz Walt Disney Pictures 2002)Ī rather dark and thought-provoking fairy-tale story from the Walt Disney people, as directed by Jay Russell (“My Dog Skip “) from a novel by Natalie Babbitt. TUCK EVERLASTING (director: Jay Russell screenwriters: from a novel by Natalie Babbitt/Jeffrey Lieber/James V. ![]()
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