Tuck Everlasting (2002 film)
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| 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 | Buena Vista Pictures, 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.
This Disney version was directed by Jay Russell and starred Victor Garber, Jonathan Jackson, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek, and Alexis Bledel.
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[edit] Story
The story involves the Tucks, a family who drank from a magic spring from The Foster's 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.
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.
[edit] Differences between book/movie
- Winifred is not 10 years old in the movie.
- The beginning of the movie features Jesse Tuck on a motorcycle, while the beginning of the book is just an explanation of the occurring events.
- Jesse and Winnie fall in love, go swimming, and kiss in the movie, but in the book Winnie does not do any of that.
- In the movie, Winifred runs from her parent's car to go play baseball, but in the book she never left the house except for when she ran away.
- In the movie Winnie lives in a mansion, but in a cottage in the book.
- In the book she lived from 1870-1948 but in the movie she lived from 1899-1999.
- In the book they mention Jesse wears green suspenders, but in the movie he does not.
- 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 yellow shoots Jesse to prove his 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, Jesse has pale, white skin, but in the book he is sunburnt.
[edit] Quotes from the book
Several lines from Natalie Babbit's original book appear in the movie:
- Winnie: "I need a new name. One that's worn out from being called so much." (on the number of times she's been called that day)
- Winnie: "I'm dry as dust." (Winnie wants a drink from the spring, but Jesse won't let her)
- Angus: "This is the most important thing that's happened in this house in eighty years." (on Winnie's arrival at the Tucks)
- Jesse: "I'm gonna be seventeen until the end of the world." (after Jesse reveals to Winnie that he's an immortal)
- Mae: "The cat didn't drink. That's important." (Mae explains that everyone in the family, even their horse, drank from the spring)
[edit] Trivia
- The movie's working title was The Everlasting Tucks , but the director thought he would keep the original name.
- Jared Padalecki was offered the role of Jesse Tuck due to Bledel's and Padalecki's on-screen chemistry on the Gilmore Girls, but Padalecki declined the offer because he wanted to work with other people.
- The coat Winnie plays stick ball in is the same one as the Sinking Coat in Titanic except the hem is shortened and is made double breasted.
- Sissy Spacek and Amy Irving also starred in the 1976 horror movie Carrie.
- At the end of the movie, Jesse finds Winnie's gravestone by the spring. It reads Winifred Foster Jackson. The name of Jesse's actor is Jonathan Jackson.
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