Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11828 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-08-01
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Turkish, Arabic
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 87 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
With the makings of a classic, Disney's Tuck Everlasting is loosely but respectfully adapted from Natalie Babbitt'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

Synopsis
Fifteen-year-old Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is the beautiful, privileged daughter of the richest man in town. A disagreement with her domineering parents (Amy Irving, Victor Garber) sends Winnie outside the fence that surrounds her pristine house and protects her from the outside world, and into the nearby forbidden woods. Her journey becomes a far greater adventure than she ever anticipated when she meets the Tucks, a family of immortals that live deep in the woods. Parents Angus (William Hurt), Mae (Sissy Spacek), and their sons Miles (Scott Bairstow) and Jesse (Jonathan Jackson), stopped ageing more than a century ago after drinking from an enchanted spring, a veritable fountain of youth. With the Tucks, Winnie discovers the freedom lacking in her own small world, and a romance blossoms between the mortal teenager and the immortal Jesse. With the local police searching for the missing Winnie and a mysterious stranger (Ben Kingsley) searching for the Tucks, Winnie must choose between immortality and a life with her new friends, or the life--and inevitable death--of a normal human. TUCK EVERLASTING is directed by Jay Russell (MY DOG SKIP, END OF THE LINE), adapted from the classic novel by Natalie Babbitt, and narrated by Elisabeth Shue.

Customer Reviews

Everlasting Classic?
When it comes to books being made into films it is my belief that no matter how good an actor or director contributes towards it, it is never anything in comparison with the book. However Tuck Everlasting is one of the rare exceptions to this rule.

It follows the story of Winnie Foster who, in frustration with her tediously formal life, runs away from home and ends up spending the most magical summer with the Tucks. Angus, Mae, Miles and Jesse are a wonderfully likeable family who are cursed (or blessed- it depends on which way you look at it) with eternal life. Add to the plot at a yellow-suited man in pursuit of this 'everlasting' family and the frantic efforts of Winnie's doting parents to find her, and what you end up with is the perfect family movie. It's gripping from start to end, beautifully filmed and incredibly thought provoking.

Fans of the book should be warned that the film strays from the original story quite considerably but I find that these alterations make the plot more rounded and enjoyable. And other than a few scenes that are a tad on the corny side, I really cannot fault it!

Everlasting memory
A fabulous film that any girl would love to see. Jesse Tuck (the gorgeous Jonathan Jackson) plays a young, carefree 17 year old boy who, along with his mother, father and brother, has been 'stuck' in time. Living a life of secrecy, knowing that if anyone should find out their gift of immortality (due to drinking from a magic spring), the Tucks are taken by surprise when Winnie Foster, daughter of the landowner whose woods they currently live in, stumbles across Jesse at the spring. She is immeidately taken to their house, before she can tell anyone of their existence. While she is there, a relationship thats would stir even the heart of the coldest person arises between her and Jesse, while in the outside world her parents start a search for their lost daughter. Soon Winnie must choose between the life she knew, and the one she knows now.
One of the most memorable films i have ever watched, and one that never fails to make me cry when Jesse, in his last words to Winnie, claims ' I will love you until the day i die'. Poignant, funny, romantic and inspiring, this is a film not to be missed!

Tuck Everlasting, Amazing and poignant.
I have just brought this title after seeing the film on sky movies, I have not read the book, but Im not sure I need to.
I dare anyone to watch this and not be thinking about it and the
questions it raises for days afterwards. It is an absolutely brilliant and thought provoking film, especially when Jesse returns, youl understand this sentence if you watch the film.
It leaves me with many thoughts to think about and I have now watched this four times and still end up thinking deeply about it afterwards. The romance added in the film which apparently isnt in the book, just makes the film and makes for alot more deep thinking. A truly wonderful film and I dont say this lightly I dont think Ive ever reviewed anything else I have read or seen. Fantastic, a film to treasure and watch again and again, and Im 26 so I think that says alot :)