Tuck Everlasting Movie Review 2002

Director Jay Russell does an admirable job adapting the beloved 1975 children's novel by Natalie Babbitt into a feature film. Winnie (Bledel) is chafing under the strict discipline of her parents, particularly the rule that forbids her from playing in the nearby woods. One day while sneaking into the forbidden forest, she meets Jesse, a boy from the rough and tumble Tuck clan. He tells her not to drink from a certain spring, but immediately after the warning she is abducted by Jesse's brother Miles (Bairstow). At the Tuck residence, Jesse's parents inform her that the spring is a fountain of youth and that she is not allowed to return home with that knowledge. She begins to fall for young Jesse although she discovers that he is actually 104 years old.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 90 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Teen Angst, Family Ties, Period Piece: 1910s, Kidnapped!, Flashback, Immortality

Screenplay

James V. Hart, Jeffrey Lieber

Cast

Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, Sissy Spacek, William Hurt, Scott Bairstow, Ben Kingsley, Amy Irving, Victor Garber

Cinematography

James L. Carter

Director

Jay Russell

Music

William Ross

Other

Elisabeth Shue, Kirk Francis, Jay Cassidy, Ray Kluga, Carol Ramsey, Tony Burrough

Producer

Jane Startz, Marc Abraham, Beacon Pictures, Scholastic, Walt Disney Pictures