Tuck Everlasting is a 2002 film

2002 in film

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 based on the children's book of the same title

Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting is a fantasy children's novel by Natalie Babbitt. It was published in 1975. The book explores the concept of immortality and the reasons why it might not be as desirable as it appears to be. It has sold over two million copies and has been called a classic of modern children's...

 by Natalie Babbitt

Natalie Babbitt

Natalie Babbitt is an American author and illustrator of children's books. Her novels Tuck Everlasting and The Eyes of the Amaryllis have been made into films . Her novel Knee-Knock Rise is a Newbery Honor book.- Life :Natalie Babbitt was born in Dayton, Ohio. Now lives in Providence, Rhode Island...

 published in 1975. This Disney

Walt Disney Pictures

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Film director

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 by Jay Russell

Jay Russell

Jay Russell , is a film director and also executive producer and director of the film My Dog Skip.His other directing credits include Tuck Everlasting, Ladder 49 and The Water Horse...

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Plot summary

The plot revolves around a 15-year-old girl named Winnie, who is from a restrictive upper-class family. Winnie one day runs away into the forest and meets a boy named Jesse Tuck, drinking from a spring. She is then kidnapped by Jesse's elder brother. Winnie soon falls in love with Jesse and later learns that the family cannot age or be injured due to drinking water from a magical spring around a hundred years ago. As the search for Winnie continues, the Tucks decide to leave the area and invite Winnie to join them. Winnie is forced to decide whether to drink from the spring and live forever, or live a mortal existence. She decides that despite the love she and Jesse share, her presence will only endanger the Tucks and she chooses to stay behind. After many years, Jesse returns to the tree where the spring used to be, and it is revealed that Winnie chose to never drink from the spring and she lived a long and charitable life.

Cast

• Alexis Bledel
  Alexis Bledel
  Alexis Bledel is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Rory Gilmore in the television series Gilmore Girls and Lena Kaligaris in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.-Early life:Bledel was born Kimberly Alexis Bledel in Houston, Texas...
  
   as Winnie Foster
• Jonathan Jackson
  Jonathan Jackson (actor)
  Jonathan Stevens Jackson is an American actor, best known for playing Lucky Spencer, son of supercouple Luke and Laura on the American daytime drama General Hospital...
  
   as Jesse Tuck
• Ben Kingsley
  Ben Kingsley
  Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE is a British actor. He has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
  
   as The Man in the Yellow Suit
• William Hurt
  William Hurt
  William McGill Hurt is an American stage and film actor. He received his acting training at the Juilliard School, and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his film debut as a troubled scientist in the science-fiction feature Altered States , for which he received a Golden Globe nomination...
  
   as Angus Tuck
• Sissy Spacek
  Sissy Spacek
  Sissy Spacek is an American actress and singer. She came to international prominence for her for role as Carrie White in Brian De Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination...
  
   as Mae Tuck
• Scott Bairstow
  Scott Bairstow
  Scott Hamilton Bairstow is a Canadian-born American actor known for his roles as "Newt Call" on the Lonesome Dove series in Canada and as "Ned Grayson" on the American television drama series, Party of Five...
  
   as Miles Tuck
• Amy Irving
  Amy Irving
  Amy Davis Irving is an American actress, known for her roles in the films Crossing Delancey, The Fury, Carrie, and Yentl as well as acclaimed roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway. She has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and has won an Obie award...
  
   as Mother Foster
• Victor Garber
  Victor Garber
  Victor Joseph Garber is a Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. Garber is known for playing Jesus in Godspell, Jack Bristow in the television series Alias, Max in Lend Me a Tenor, and Thomas Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic.-Early life:Born in London, Ontario, Canada, Garber is...
  
   as Robert Foster
• Julia Hart as Sally Hannaway
• Noami Kline as Beatrice Ruston
• Robert Luis as Night Deputy (as Robert Logan)
• Michelle Mulitz as Natalie Foster (deleted scenes)

Differences between the movie and the book

In the book...|	In the film...
Winnie is 10	She is 15
The book is set in 1880	The movie is set in 1914
Winnie's gravestone says 1870-1948 (died 78)	It says 1899-1999 (died 100)
Winnie runs away because she's tired of being cooped up	She runs away because she's going to be sent to a boarding school
To save Mae, Miles removes the window and Winnie switches places with Mae	Winnie tells the prison guard that the people who kidnapped her are back to get her. He runs outside with a shotgun to face them. He shoots them, but runs away when he sees they cannot die. Meanwhile, Winnie grabs his keys and unlocks Mae and Angus's cell doors.
Mae is sent to jail	Tuck is imprisoned and Mae is to be sent to the gallows
Mae and Tuck visit Winnie's grave (in 1950). They return riding a stagecoach.	Only Jesse does (in or around 2002). He returns riding a motorcycle.
Mae, Jesse, and Miles come to "kidnap" Winnie	Only Miles does
Miles generally enjoys Winnie's company and is more relaxed around her. He fights for her attention with Jesse.	Miles does not trust Winnie with the secret and is seen as being very bitter and angry. Because he hates his immortality, he joins various wars to try to "kill himself".
Winnie "adores" Jesse, and Jesse is very taken with her. He plans to marry her when she turns seventeen	Jesse and Winnie fall in love with each other.
The Tucks disappear on a flash of lightning	The Tucks escape in a carriage
Jesse gives Winnie a water bottle that has water from the spring and tells her to drink it when she turns seventeen	Jesse does not give Winnie a water bottle, but she contemplates drinking from the spring after the Tucks leave
Winnie gives the water to a toad	She doesn't give any to the toad
The toad appears more than 3 times	The toad appears 3 times
Angus, and Mae almost run over the toad when they visit Winnie's grave	The toad is not seen in the final scene.
The Tucks' house is a brown log cabin.

External links

• Alexis Bledel interview for Tuck Everlasting