"Tuck Everlasting" Talkback (Spoilers)

[The Guard]

If you could choose to live forever, would you?
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"If there's one thing I've learned about people, many will do anything, anything not to die. And they'll do anything to keep from living their life." - Angus Tuck

Release Date: October 11, 2002
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Jay Russell
Starring: William Hurt, Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek, Jonathan Jackson, Alexis Bledel, Scott Bairstow, Robert Randolph Caton, Bob Coletti, Kosha Engler, Peter Epstein, Victor Garber, Amy Irving, Beau Russell

Plot Summary: Based on the acclaimed children's book by Natalie Babbitt, "Tuck Everlasting" is the story of Winnie Foster (Bledel), a teenage girl on the cusp of maturity. Winnie longs for a life outside the control of her domineering mother (Irving), and when lost in the woods near her home, she happens upon Jesse Tuck (Jackson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met before. He and his family (Hurt, Spacek, Bairstow) are kind and generous, and they immediately take her in as one of their own. However, the Tucks hold a powerful secret, and with the mysterious Man in the Yellow Suit (Kingsley) tracking them down, they fear that the world as they know it could end. Ultimately, Winnie must decide whether to return to her life or stay with her beloved Jesse and his family forever.

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Comments?
Edited by The Penguin (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?goto=postid&postid=784835)


I'm off to see this movie. Can't wait.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Chick flick threads rarely gather any momentum on Toonzone. Witness my "Sweet Home Alabama" thread with a whopping 1 response.

I wanna see "Punch-Drunk Love" myself. I've always been a closet Sandler fan.

[The Guard]

You've never read Tuck Everlasting, have you? :)

It's not a chick flick. It's a "beloved, American novel"

Seriously. The Tucks are really cool characters. And the cast for this film is perfect.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Ha ha...but the thing is, it IS a chick flick. This is a novel filtered through Hollywood's (or rather, Disney's) lens.

[The Guard]

No, TREASURE PLANET is a novel filtered through DISNEY. TUCK EVERLASTING is what can happen when a good "rookie" director and screenwriter are left alone with a classic.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Can't agree. By aging the main character in the book from pre-teen to teen, it should have tipped you off what kind of movie this was going to be. It's been a while since I read it, a long while, but I distinctly remember it being more fantasy than romance. Not so here. I saw this at a preview screening a few days ago (thanks to my friend, who is a critic for a local paper), and the film struck me as more romance/fantasy.

To be sure, it trots out some nice cinematography and the requisite "sentimental" music at all the right moments.

[The Guard]

It was fantastic. Michelle Pfeiffer was her usual stellar self. Alison Lohman was great. She shined in this. The one complain I have is that some of the soundtrack was lifted right out of ROAD TO PERDITION. Oh, wait...that's WHITE OLEANDER. Yes, that's right. I screwed up the movie times and had to go see the other movie, where I was the single male. But OLEANDER was a good movie.

[pabcool]

I Liked The Movie, But It Was Really Slow-Paced. And The Romance Does Get Annoying. (Like Jessie's Never Gonna Let You Go Scene, That Lasted About 5 Minutes!)

[oranthal]

what is a Tuck?

[The Guard]

The Tucks are a family of weirdos. I don't want to ruin the plot.

[The Dork Knight]

I read the book last year. I liked it. I may see the movie soon.

- Foley Is Good

[Kathy Kane]

I never read the book or will see the movie, so can someone give me a hint to the Tucks big secret?
Do they drink the blood of virgins or something twisted like that to stay alive?
Somebody said it was slow what about the acting, john hurt is cool in my book.

[gtracer72]

No there is no sacrifical vigin blood drinking.

The movie was really good. It did however seem to go very slow. It has been so many years since I read the book, I had almost forgotten it. :( . I can kinda see that it might be considered a chick flick, but I don't think it is. I give it 4 stars. :)

[The Guard]

The Tucks found the Fountain of Youth under a tree. They return every so often and drink from it, even though they're pretty much immortal.

[The Guard]

I saw it. And...how do I put this?

It was great.

But it sucked.

There. That works. First...despite what a lot of people think, this is not a kids movie. Not at all. The story has been altered, and there's enough sexual tension, ect, to keep children from being interested. Most of this film will go right over kids' heads. The acting was great, especially from William Hurt and Alexis Bledel. William Ross's score was fantastic. The sets and the costumes were spot-on. The romantic and familial chemistry was there. But it sucked. It was boring. It was lifeless. Something was missing.

Magic.

The magic that's made TUCK EVERLASTING the classic it is. And there were two other things missing:

The Ferris Wheel:

This is the scene that STARTS the magic in the novel. Where we see first hand just how weird the Tucks are, and what we can expect.

The Turtle:

We did get a sort of frog in there, but she didn't give the frog water from the spring.

I can't point a finger at it. It wasn't the heavy hand of Disney. It wasn't bad directing. It wasn't the romance twist (which worked quite well). I think it was that the writer tried to stay true to the original story while creating another. And that's not possible.

[JohnCrichton]

It's okay to give away the plot. You have a Spoiler warning in the title.

I had the book read to me in like.... the fifth grade. From what I remember it was pretty enthralling, but I forget what the deal was.

What happned at the Ferris Wheel I'm not remembering and are the Tucks immortal or something?