In the mean while we have Winnie's parents (played by Amy Irving and Victor Garber) looking for her. Winnie becomes a new member of the family. Although at first the family thinks Winnie needs to be killed, things change when Jesse Tuck and Winnie start to have feeling for one another. The young teenager who is taken by the family so she can not reveal their secret is Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel). The immortal family exists out of father Angus Tuck (William Hurt), mother Mae (Sissy Spacek) and two sons named Miles (Scott Bairstow) and Jesse (Jonathan Jackson). The story about an immortal family and a young teenager that comes into their lives is probably a well known story for some audiences, but I didn't know it. You could ask question after question but I did not find a reason to do so. 'Tuck Everlasting' is one of those sweet movies with a lot of flaws you don't care about. This failed at the box office but it really should be rediscovered. This is beautiful-well-directed and acted with a sweeping music score. And Elisabeth Shue narrates and does an excellent job. But Sissy Spacek, William Hurt, Amy Irving and Scott Bairstrow also turn in very good acting. This is also a rare film where virtually every performance is good-especially Bledel and Jackson. They don't overdo the sentimentality (as they could have) and make the story quite moving and engrossing. Disney made a quiet, beautiful, charming fantasy film. I never saw the 1980 version of this and when I heard Disney was going to redo it I expected the worst. I love it! I thought it was just incredible. I read this book in college as part of a Children's Literature class. The problem is that he's part of a family that are immortal. But for adults looking for a smart movie to which they can take their kids – a movie, in fact, that's guaranteed to provoke thought in viewers of all ages – you won't do better right now than Tuck Everlasting.A young rich girl (Alexis Bledel) in the early 1990s, meets and falls in love with Jesse Tuck (Jonathan Jackson). There's no question that Tuck Everlasting is superb family entertainment, although I feel I must make one comment in that department: While there's little objectionable here for most viewers, the story does contain a lot of pretty heavy concepts. Kingsley's work is top-notch, and the already solid film really lights up every time he's on screen. The movie also gets a lot of mileage out of its veteran actors, and the real standout is Ben Kingsley – hard to believe that the guy who played Ghandi is finding a second career playing villains of all sorts, from the vicious gangster in Sexy Beast to the seductive yet creepy Man in the Yellow Suit here. The Victorian world of Winnie Foster (Bledel, left) and her domineering mother (Amy Irving, center) is shaken by the mysterious Man in the Yellow Suit (Ben Kingsley, right).Īlexis Bledel is a lovely and charismatic lead, able to look both younger and older than she actually is, depending on how she's shot. In many ways, it makes sense that director Jay Russell was chosen for this project – he made the utterly lovable and adorable My Dog Skip, which detailed the life and death of a family pet here, he's working with a story that applies those same concepts to people, along with a healthy dose of fantasy. And (being careful here, to avoid spoilers) one of the most impressive things about Tuck Everlasting is that it's a family film that's actually about some of the very most fundamental questions of life and death. Initially frightened, Winnie quickly comes to like – then love – this family, especially Jesse but as her affection for the Tucks grows, she slowly realizes that they harbor a strange and powerful secret – a secret, in fact, that has made them the target of the mysterious, menacing Man in the Yellow Suit (Sir Ben Kingsley), a stranger who has arrived in search of the family.Īlthough I won't spoil just what the "secret" of the Tuck family is, I will say that the title gives a huge hint. One day she becomes lost in the woods near her home and comes upon the Tuck family – father (William Hurt), mother (Sissy Spacek) and sons Jesse (Jonathan Jackson) and Miles (Scott Bairstow). Alexis Bledel (from TV's Gilmore Girls) plays Winnie Foster, a free-spirited girl in 1914 who is bristling at the loving but repressive upbringing of her parents (Amy Irving and Victor Garber).
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