Tuck Everlasting
Movie poster.
Directed by	Jay Russell
Produced by	Marc Abraham
Written by	Natalie Babbitt (novel}, Jeffrey Lieber (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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Story

The story involves the Tucks, a family who drank from a magic spring in the Fosters' little 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, straitlaced 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, a band of immortals due to a spring from which they drank years ago. The novel ultimately puts up an argument for mortality and why it is necessary by using the Tucks as an example. Image File history File links Tuck_Everlasting. ... Image File history File links Tuck_Everlasting. ... Immortality can refer to Article about Immortality Les Immortels, members of the Académie française. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ...

In the film, Winnie and Jesse fall in love and she has to decide whether or not to drink from the spring so that she can 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.

Differences between the movie and the book

• Winnie is 15 or 16-years-old in the movie; in the book, she is 10-years-old.
• The movie is set in 1914, while the book is set in 1880.
• In the book, Winnie loved Jesse but his affections for her seemed to be as a friend since he was older than her. In the movie, Winnie and Jesse are about the same age and seem to mutually feel love for each other.
• In the movie, Mae is rescued from jail when Miles and Jesse stage an attack on Winnie to distract the sheriff. This never happens in the book.
• In the movie, the man in the yellow suit attacks Jesse, to disprove Jesse's immortality. In the book, the man suggests that the Tucks perform deadly feats to prove the spring's powers to the public, but never actually attacks any of them.
• In the movie, it is Jessie who returns to find Winnie's gravestone, by the spring; in the book it is Angus and Mae who return, finding the gravestone in a cemetery.

Trivia

• The movie's working title was The Everlasting Tucks.^{[citation needed]}
• Jared Padalecki was offered the role of Jesse Tuck due to Bledel's and Padalecki's on-screen chemistry on Gilmore Girls, but Padalecki declined the offer because he wanted to work with other people.^{[citation needed]}
• Sissy Spacek and Amy Irving had previously starred together in 1976, in Carrie.

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External link

• Tuck Everlasting (2002) at the Internet Movie Database
• Alexis Bledel interview for Tuck Everlasting