Tuck Everlasting
The 15-year-old teen called Winnie meets a member of the family called Tucks and lives a completely different life. She meets one member of the family after escaping from her mother, who controls her and loses her in the forest near her home. Winnie met Jesse Took, a very different young man. Winnie lived with that good family, but she may have a big secret. She has to decide whether she will stay with them or will she leave again.
10 September 1953, Palo Alto, California, USA
28 November 1977, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
25 December 1949, Quitman, Texas, USA
23 April 1970, Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada
December 29, 2010
Lovely version of the favorite middle-school book.
December 30, 2008
The entire production bears a certain medicinal scent; it may be good for you, but it's not exactly tasty.
October 17, 2002
Any movie that signals the menace of a potential lynching by zooming its camera through the loop of a gallows noose cannot claim subtlety, but director Jay Russell never lets the swirling emotions of Tuck become too drippy.
July 10, 2003
Lambent, wholesome youth film, nothing short of magical, wherein a cosseted, cloistered lass escapes from her perennial confines of parental stuffiness .
October 14, 2002
A successful merger of the whimsical and the weird.
October 18, 2002
Those with the patience to submit to its low-energy charms may find their time well spent.
October 11, 2002
Its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters, but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers.
October 15, 2002
Bledel and Jonathan Jackson's gorge-side canoodling drifts dangerously close to Blue Lagoon territory.
April 29, 2009
A really good and thought provoking film on life and true romance.
April 09, 2003
A great-looking film with beautiful scenery and some fine actors, but it lacks a good third act.
November 05, 2002
Harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research.
September 06, 2003
There is no life in the story, and what could be a thoughtful rumination on mortality offers only pat Disneyfied lessons.
