Tuck Everlasting (2002 film)
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| Tuck Everlasting | |
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| Directed by | Jay Russell |
| Produced by | Marc Abraham |
| Written by | Anna Rodriguez (novel) David Wight (screenplay James V. Hart (screenplay) |
| Narrated by | Elisabeth Shue |
| Starring | Alexis Bledel William Hurt Sissy Spacek Jonathan Jackson Scott Bairstow Ben Kingsley |
| Music by | William Ross |
| Cinematography | James L. Carter |
| Editing by | Jay Lash Cassidy |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 5, 2002 |
| Running time | 1 hr. 30 min |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15,000,000 (estimated) [1] |
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Tuck Everlasting is a 2002 film based on the children's book of the same title by Natalie Babbitt published in 1975. The film is a remake of an earlier film from 1981.
This Disney version was directed by Jay Russell.
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[edit] Story
The story involves the Tucks, a family who drank from a magic spring in the Fosters' forest and became immortal (hence the name "Tuck Everlasting").
In the movie, set in the early 20th century, the protagonist is a 15-year-old girl named Winifred Foster. She comes from a well-bred, straight-laced family and becomes lost in the woods one day during an attempt to escape her smothered lifestyle. In the woods, she encounters the Tuck family, which gained immortality years ago by drinking from a spring. The novel ultimately puts up an argument for mortality and why it is necessary by using the Tucks as an example.
In the film, Winnie and Jesse fall in love and she has to decide whether to drink from the spring because she aspires to be with him forever. In both the book and film she decides against it. The movie ends with Jesse visiting Winnie's grave in more modern times, sad that she was not with him but also happy that Winnie was not trapped in time like he and his family.
[edit] Cast
- Alexis Bledel - Winifred "Winnie" Foster
- Jonathan Jackson - Jesse Tuck
- William Hurt - Angus Tuck
- Sissy Spacek - Mae Tuck
- Scott Bairstow - Miles Tuck
- Ben Kingsley - The Man in the Yellow Suit
- Amy Irving - Mother Foster
- Victor Garber - Robert Foster
- Kosha Engler - Miles' Wife
- Richard Pilcher - Constable Henry
- Julia Hart - Sally Hannaway
- Naomi Kline - Beatrice Ruston
[edit] Differences between the movie and the book
- Winnie is fifteen years old in the movie; in the book, she is ten turning eleven years old.
[edit] Trivia
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- Sissy Spacek and Amy Irving had previously starred together in 1976, in Carrie.
- Much of the movie was filmed in Berlin, Maryland. The town's main street went through a large Hollywood renovation, including covering the streets in dirt, to portray the early 1900's fictional city of Treegap.[citation needed]
- Many scenes were shot in Harford County, specifically at the King and Queen Seat in Rocks State Park, Kilgore Falls, Bulle Rocke, Christ Church Rock Spring, and other locations in Susquehanna State Park.
- Alexis Bledel plays Winnie who is 15 but in real life Alexis was 19 at the time of filming.
