Alexis Bledel, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek

With the makings of a classic, Disney's Tuck Everlastingcompares favorably with such family favorites as The Secret Garden and Fairy Tale: A True Story. Loosely but respectfully adapted from Natalie B...( read more  read more... )abbitt's beloved children's book, this appealing fable focuses on the timeless Tuck family, blessed--and cursed--with immortality after drinking from a magical spring. Hiding their secret over passing decades, they are discovered in 1914 by Winnie (Alexis Bledel)--the only daughter of stern, upper-crust socialites--who encounters the life-affirming Jesse Tuck (Jonathan Jackson) and grows enchanted with his family (Sissy Spacek, William Hurt, Scott Bairstow) while her parents fear she's been kidnapped. The film's teenage romance is invented (Winnie is younger in Babbitt's book), but it's charmingly appropriate, and Ben Kingsley is perfect as a menacing man of mystery. Scoring a solid follow-up to his equally enjoyable My Dog Skip, director Jay Russell turns Tuck Everlasting into a magical plea for living life to its fullest. --Jeff Shannon

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113 critics

PG, 88 min.

Directed by: Jay Russell

Release Date: October 22, 2002

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DVD Release Date: November 15, 2005

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  • May 25, 2009
    Terrible movie and book.
  • August 21, 2007
    SUCH a good movie! I admit, this is something that girls will naturally like more, but my husband didn't mind it. Visually beautiful, just from the scenery, and what I REALLY appreciated was how closely the movie stayed true to the book. Granted, she was 5 years older in the movi...( read more)e, but it was better this way. I like the book, LOVE the movie. I'm not a fan of The Gilmore Girls, either, but Alexis Bledel really did a good job! The chemistry between Winnie and Jesse was very real.

    And... if you want in on a secret... this is one of like 3 movies I've ever cried at. Honest! When Miles recounted his story, it was too much.

    The only part... they should have included that frog like they did with the book. I was disapointed. The frog played a big part, all things considered!
  • August 12, 2007
    So much better than the book. Jonathan Jackson is sooo cute! The whole movie was splendidly done. Yay Disney!
  • August 8, 2007
    LIked its innocent nature and secret theme.
  • October 5, 2006
    great!
  • November 6, 2009
    this is a cute love story too
  • October 28, 2009
    Pointless! - First of all 104 years, or a bit over is not too long a time to grow bored with life, even mortals do that and I'm pretty sure they aren't sooo exhausted with living. Secondly, living life to the fullest doesn't need a time limit. If only they were actually living l...( read more)ife "a more impressive, and civilize lifestyle would do"... However, great scenery and not bad looking couple.
  • October 26, 2009
    This is one of my favorite movies!
  • October 23, 2009
    Actually I wasn't interesting in seeing this I saw it on tele and I have now seen it and I quite liked it.

    Contains spoilers!
    This tells the story of a little girl who doesn't want to attend school but her parents wants her too.

    Because she doesn't want to she exscepes int...( read more)o the woods a man comes onto her and says she shouldn't be in this part of the woods she says she owns the woods but the man tells her to go home and chases her.

    She says that if she knows the way and then another man came and thought she was lost so he grabbed her onto a house and sent her home to his family and gives her food her parents starts looking for her in the woods because she likes the woods so much but they don't find her so they start getting woried eventually they find her and they become happy because they missed her so much so its an happy ending.

    The movie starts off slow and boring but as the movie goes on it just gets better and better.
    Basically the begining could of been more interesting and with a faster storyline.

    The acting was done pretty well I couldn't fault it really for a disney the acting was done well enough it could of been stronger in parts but it did with me and so did the plot the story was interesting enough as a disney.I have seen better disneys but I have seen worsed too. This movie is up to standard with other disneys the stories happy at the end it as a good meaning some fab acting and a good fantasy plot added to it.

    As I have said the acting could of been better and so could the story of been faster and more interesting at the begining but considering I wasn't interested in seeing this movie this was good I happened to notice it was on tele in the morning and I wasn't doing anything so I watched it and I'm happy I did.

    The story at the end could of been done much faster too but as a disney this movie was good.

    Overall I'm deffinitly reccomending this its very good for a disney please check this out soon.
  • September 30, 2009
    So-so film, but it shouldn't have ended that way.

Critic Reviews


October 11, 2002
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

The film casts a spell that's hard to resist, and in the end has much to tell us -- however old we may be -- about life and death. full review

October 11, 2002
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

It's solid and affecting and exactly as thought-provoking as it should be. full review

October 11, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The movie is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value. full review

October 11, 2002
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

There's no reason it couldn't have been infused with real feeling, instead of just a nice, tidy lesson about the continuity of life and the painfulness of growing up. full review

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Comments


  • blahblahblobber
    October 30, 2008
    Watch the whole movie here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BEF725ABFF3E18B5
  • bryanikagrady
    April 8, 2008
    i thought this movie was the best i think that it should get an award
  • xXxihearthimxXx
    September 28, 2007
    I loved this movie! I read the book 2! they were so different from eachother tho! Alexis Bledel is such a great actress in this movie!
  • paintslim
    July 19, 2006
    jonathan jackson is a wonderful young actor........have been watching him for years

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