Tuck Everlasting
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Movie Reviews of Tuck Everlasting
Movie Review: A life-alfiring movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie. It's so good. It's really a very life-afirming movie about living life to the fullest and not being afraid of death but rather the life you're bound to lead especially when you're life. It starts with Winnie Foster, whose a young girl growing up in the Victorian age who runs away from home because she seeks change. Winnfried isn't the most positive person. She's afraid to take chances, she's hasn't done much with her young life and she's very young and fearful of living. She meets a young man by a pond and when she requests to drink from it, he tells her not to. She's captured by his brother and she's taken to his family, the Tucks who are a nice and kind and generous family who live in the woods of Winnie's home. They're kind to her, and she bonds with them and has a connection and she starts to see life in a different way thanks to them. She falls for Jessie, before realizing that he's immortal. The whole Tuck family is, because they drank from the spring a long time ago. They will never die, but live forever. This may see like an odd fantasy, but it's the truth. Winnie wonders whether or not she should drink from it and live like them forever. The cute boy's father, William Hurt urges her not to, and tells her that someday she probably will die and that she'll go out like a flame of a candle, and she admits she doesn't want to die and he basicaly tells her nobody does. He tells her not to be afraid of death, but rather the unlived life. Winnie kind of learns to her live to the fullest and does what she wants to do with her life, not her parents. She starts to see friends from a different perspective, and she is forever changed. I guess then the oldest Tuck, the mother of the two boys kills the bad guy who is kind of a creep for a kids movie anyway and he dies. She is sentenced to be hung, but Winnie rescues the Tucks, and however she doesn't go with them. She stays behind, and choses not to drink from the spring. She instead goes off out into the world, determined to live life to her own choosing and I think she does, because at the end of her life she had kids and was married and she did everything she ever wanted to do in her own life and so she kind of passes away peacefully I guess. The cute guy Jessie goes back to TreeGap after a long period of time, only to find her grave sweetly tucked away in the woods and he bends down by it, thinking about her. He knew her a long time ago, but he remembers her. It faids into the trees, a well-shot moment telling the audience that Winnie did indeed live a full life and did take chances and did everything she ever did want to do in her life. This beautiful phillospy really plays a part in Winnie's own life, and and it makes the audience feel like this movie was a journey worth taking, and that it's defintely a very life-afiriming movie. It really takes you on a story of life and questions stuff like that. I love this movie, it's very beautiful and classic and it's something everybody will enjoy seeing. The acting is good, and the cute boy is good and so is Alexis as Winnie. I didn't like the villian though, he was kind of creepy and unncessary. He was weird, but the rest of the cast was great. Expect her father. Alias's dad? I mean, come on people! I think this is a good movie and very cute. It's amazing Jay Rusell acutally made the book into this good movie, because the book was very well written by an total athiest so it's amazing that the film had moments like that were you really believed these people. The book's trash, but the movie is simple and sweet and positive and has a good message.Movie Review: Corny, silly, unbelievable....perfect.
Summary: 5 Stars
Norman Rockwell was a painter who knew, first hand, of the evils of the real world. So was Walt Disney. But when these men put there respective brushes to paper they made the discussion, they would not paint the bad, but the world as they thought it should be. They would create loving if flawed characters and happy endings. The world of Tuck Everlasting is not real. It is a world of eternal springtime where adorable couples literally run through fields of flowers and fawns come up to be petted. It would be a quite unbearable world if such films and stories were simply put aside as being too silly or unbelievable, who needs reality, we have reality. We go to the movies sometimes for fantasy and for escape. Meet Winnie, the child of loving but unintentionally cruel parents who want what's best for there only child, but who are clueless as to what she really needs, they decide to send her to a prison for girls where she will be abused until she behaves in a way that suits them, for her own good of course, such situations are always difficult, you can't dislike parents who care for there children and make the effort and sacrifice to do what's best, no doubt at considerable emotional pain themselves. But you cannot forgive people who are fundamentally selfish and cannot accept the there child is a person, not a pet, parents care for there children, but they do not own them. Whinny's parents are unreasonable and cannot accept there child as an individual with feelings and opinions. They would have crushed her soul to meet there idea of the perfect daughter,but this is Disney, thank God. In Disney's world we know that mom and dad will come around, that there daughter will find herself and be happy, that they all will be. She runs off and meets a just too handsome young man and they spend a lot of time being just too damn happy. The young actress who plays Whiney is just perfect, she does not act so much as stand there and shimmer like some sort of living jewel, she is simply perfect. Of course there is a complication, a bad guy, and a wonderful happy ending which Walt Disney himself would have been so very proud of. There is some story about a magic fountain of youth, but that's not what this is about. This is about stepping into a world where things happen as they should, so what if it's fake. It is the fake we desperately need sometimes, like now.Movie Review: Blends everything you hope the world can be into a film
Summary: 5 Stars
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
Movie Review: Stands Up Well to Repeated Viewings
Summary: 5 Stars
I've owned this movie now for over two years and have enjoyed watching it several times. The story is mostly laid back and peaceful but tells a powerful story and on occasion gets somewhat heavy. Other reviewers have summarized the story so I'll not do that again.
What I'll do is comment on the basic premise of eternal life. Those of us familiar with the Genesis account of creation may recall that God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden lest they eat of the tree of life and live forever. From my perspective that was an act of grace and mercy. Adam and Eve had just died spiritually and eternal life with a dead spirit was a fate not to be desired.
God, in love, separated them from the danger of living forever with a dead, fallen spirit. When the time was right, God provided a way back to spiritual life through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. A future is now available which includes both spiritual life and eternal life for all who accept God's solution; a much better alternative!
Both Angus and Miles are given opportunities to relate their response to life without death, and express their sadness with the results; whether it is watching life go by, feeling like a rock, or watching loved ones age and change in a way not available to them, the prospects appeared rather dim and uninviting. Winnie is finally faced with the necessity of making a decision as to which way she should go; the answer to that closes the movie.
The movie has a charming ambiance and is well acted, Alexis Bledel portrays Winnie with charm and innocence, Ben Kingsley does a good job as the unnamed "man in the yellow suit," William Hurt as Angus, Sissy Spacek as Mae, Jonathan Jackson as Jesse, and Scott Bairstow as Miles are all effective in their roles. The supporting roles are also convincingly played.
I can recommend this movie for all who love a good story.
Movie Review: The Tuck Review
Summary: 5 Stars
I personally loved this book. It is about a girl Winnie who finds a magical water spring. She saw a boy maybe a little bit older than her drink from it. when she asks if she could have some he says no. Then she demands the water because she owns the wood that the spring is in. He stops her then the boys mom and older brother come, he is relieved because they would know what to do. They take her to their house but on the way there they tell her the story. The story is that long ago they drank from it and as they grew on in life they realized that they were not getting any older from the time they drank the water. so they figured that they were immortal when Jesse the youngest boy fell out of a tree 30ft high right on his neck and didn't even hurt him, then when Tuck the father got bitten by a rattle snake and did not die, then Jesse ate poisen frogs stools and didn't even get sick, then the horse got mistaken for a deer and got shot and it didn't even leave a mark, thats when Tuck the father found out it was the water, so to make sure of it one day Tuck took his shotgun and before Jesse, Mae the mother, or Miles the older brother could do any thing he shot himself in the heart! It knocked him down but barely left a scratch. So the family tells the girl not to tell anyone about the spring. But the problem was a man heard the whole story and was planning to sell thge water! Thats when the story begins, but I am not going to tell you any more. But the one thing that made the story was that Jesse and Winnie fall in love. So I really think it was a great book.