Tuck Everlasting
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Actor: Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, Scott Bairstow, Sissy Spacek, William HurtBrand: Walt Disney Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
DVD Reviews of Tuck Everlasting
DVD Review: If you could choose to live forever, would you?
Summary: 4 Stars
Despite the impressive cast of adult actors assembled for the 2002 film version of "Tuck Everlasting," this adaptation of Natalie Babbit's novel is clearly geared for adolescents. By that I mean that older viewers can easily get caught up in identifying problems with the story from an adult perspective, while younger viewers will be focused on imagining what it would be like to be confronted with the choice that faces Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel), the only child of a wealthy family living in a town in upstate New York on the even of the First World War. Winnie wants to be a tomboy, or at least a normal young girl, but her life is as strictly controlled as her body is by the corset her mother (Amy Irving) insists she wear. One day she is told by her father (Victor Garber) that she will be sent away to a boarding school, so Winnie runs away, deep into the woods where she meets handsome young Jesse Tuck (Jonathan Jackson).
Unfortunately, the Tuck family is hiding out in the deep woods, and they cannot afford to have anybody know where they are, even young Winnie. So she is brought back to the family home, where Jesse lives with his parents, Mae (Sissy Spacek) and Angus (William Hurt), and his brother, Miles (Scott Bairstow). In good time she learns the family secret: a century ago the Tucks discovered a small spring in the woods. They drank from the sweet waters and found out that they no longer aged and had become invulnerable. In other words, they are immortals. But there is someone out there, a strange man wearing a yellow suit (Ben Kingsley), who has been on their trail and is obviously interested in the magic waters that make life everlasting. With everyone looking for the missing Winnie, the life the Tuck family has been living might be coming to an end, even if their lives do not.
The choice for Winnie is whether she should drink from the spring and stay young forever with Jeese, who is really 104, or live a mortal life. Miles thinks it is a bad idea. He fell in love once, married, and had two children. But when his wife learned his secret she became convinced he had made a pact with the devil and left Miles, taking his children. Would Miles have shared the water with them at some point? What point would he have picked? Miles is planning to enlist when the Great War begins because he longs to die, even though he knows he cannot be killed.
This is where the adult mind, weaned on countless horror films, takes over and comes up with lots of ways of granting Miles his wish (none of which I will share with you here). But "Tuck Everlasting" is not about the real world, even if that is where Babbitt sets her tale, and the point here is not about looking backwards, but looking forward. It is Angus Tuck who makes the most important points to young Winnie. Angus knows that people will do just about anything not to die, but finds it more important that "they'll do anythng to keep from living their life." More importantly, he does not consider what the Tucks have to be called "living," comparing it to being "like rocks, stuck at the side of a stream." In the end, Angus' sage advice is for her not be afraid of death, but to "Be afraid of the unlived life."
Again, the adult is quick to point out that Angus does not have to be living in a home in the woods. He can go disappear in the teaming cities of America or anywhere else in the world, moving from place to place often enough for no one to suspect the truth (that is what his sons do). But the kids are looking at this one from the perspective of Winnie and Jesse. After all, Jesse not only looks like he is 17 but acts like it as well (Is this the first time he has been in love or is Winnie special? Only adults will care). I wonder what Mae thinks about the life she is living, but no one ever bothers to ask her.
"Tuck Everlasting" is sweetly romantic. The kissing is fairly chaste and the most romantic moment has the winsome Bledel as the young Winnie dancing by firelight. The screenplay of Babbitt's novel is by Jeffrey Lieber, creator of this year's new television series "Lost," and James V. Hart, who did the screenplay for "Bram Stoker's Dracula," and I am told that the romantic elements are more developed here than in the novel. Still, the innocent romance seems in keeping with the rest of the story. The fate of the Tucks becomes the focal point of the film's climax, but the resolution still has to do with Winnie's choice.
If young viewers are still not clear about the point of this film, then they can avail themselves of the "Lessons Of Tuck" feature on the DVD. This special viewing mode allows kids to switch from the film to special segments that explore the themes and issues of the movie with actor Jonathan Jackson, other cast members, and some regular kids. Other DVD features include a pair of commentary tracks, the first with director Jay Russell and screenwriter James V. Hart and the second with Russell and the three young cast members, Jackson, Bledel and Bairstow. Finally there is a featurette that visits with author Natalie Babbitt, which looks more at her entire career as a writer and artist of children's literature and not "Tuck Everlasting" in particular.
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?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 90 minutes
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