Tuck Everlasting | | Cast : | Alexis Bledel, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek, Jonathan Jackson | | Director : | Jay Russell | | Studio : | Walt Disney Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | October 11, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | January 25, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | beautiful | Content
 | the story is great and i wanted to get that music box that mae tuck had.the only thing i did not like was alexis bladel, shes pretty, i just dont like her voice, it's so monotoned. but thats not a big deal it's still a great movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 06, 2005 | | Summary | THe Best Book I've Ever Read!!! | Content
| We just finished the book in class and then watched the movie. It was the best movie I have seen!!! There's a lot of romantic parts but those parts are pretty good too. Jesse is so cute!! A must see! |
| Rating | | | Date | March 26, 2005 | | Summary | THIS MOVIE IS FANTASTIC!!! EXCELLENT!! | Content
| HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE TUCK EVERLASTING? WE READ THE BOOK IN MY CLASS AND THEN WE SAW THE MOVIE WHEN IT WAS IN THEATERS! I CRY EVERY TIME I SEE IT!!! IT IS SUCH A ROMANTIC AND FUN STORY!! THE CRITICS WHO RATED SHOULD DEFINATELY FIND ANOTHER JOB BECAUSE BEING A CRITIC IS NOT THEIR CHOSEN CAREER! GO SEE THIS MOVIE!! BUY IT BECAUSE YOU WILL WANT TO SEE IT OVER AND OVER!!!
AND JONATHAN JACKSON IS EXTREMELY CUTE!! |
| Rating | | | Date | February 26, 2005 | | Summary | Great! | Content
| This is a very cute movie. It was touching, but it kind of seems like Winnie's a little bit too young for her (boy)friend.
Other than that, great movie! |
| Rating | | | Date | February 19, 2005 | | Summary | Blends everything you hope the world can be into a film | Content
| TUCK EVERLASTING is simply a 'feel good' movie. Old fashioned in the best sense of the term, life-affirming, sentimental, finding the borders of credibility and celebrating them, and directed and acted with the sense of commitment that Jay Russell and his fine cast provided - put all of that together and it is close to impossible not to love this little movie.
Natalie Babbitt's 1981 novel may have been meant for the young readers, but in the translation to the screen this story appeals to the young at heart: chronological age is not applicable. The Tuck family happened upon a spring in a woods in the past, drank from the spring and voila! - the fountain of Ponce de Leon's obsession has been discovered. This dear family (mother Sissy Spacek, father William Hurt, and sons Jesse (Jonathan Jackson) and Miles (Scott Bairstow) settles into the fortunes and inevitable sadnesses that accompany becoming immortal: life's ebb and flow and the cycle of birth to death eludes them. Man's quest for eternal youth has its sad aspects.
Into the Tuck family secret woods happens Winnie (Alexis Bleidel), daughter of a wealthly family (mother Amy Irving and father Victor Garber), and encounters Jesse, slowly falls in love and learns the Tuck secret. Meanwhile an evil yellow-coated man (Ben Kingsley) finds the fount of his own obsession, informs Winnie's family that she has been kidnapped by the Tuck family, and the only way to regain Winnie is to sell their woods (and of course its invaluable spring) to him. How this all plays out - the inevitable capture of the Tucks and the way they resolve their immortal inaccessibility with Jesse's and Winnie's new found need for each other - serves as the ending and it is resolved well.
The settings and acting and physical beauty of this film are matched by the understated but important moments of philosophy about what is the meaning of the cycle of life as we know it rather than as we think we would reshape it. Some may label this film as corny or 'Hallmarky' and that is sad: there is plenty of room in the celluloid world for fragments of sincere tenderness such as this. Grady Harp, February 2005 |
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