Ben Kingsley’s character represents all those people in the world who crave immortality and will do anything for it. The scene where he tells his life story is a pretty powerful moment in the film. He has also seen their family persecuted and fought in multiple wars unable to be hurt. While Jesse lives a carefree life exploring the world like Peter Pan, Miles has lived a lifetime and watched his wife and children die. The character Miles Tuck embodies the downside of it. The movie is rather slowly paced, but it explores all the benefits and liabilities of living forever. Think the Disney version of “Anne of Green Gables” meets “Highlander”. It explores the themes of immortality in a slightly different package than you’d normally expect. I wasn’t familiar with the original book or the movie before I viewed this DVD, so I was pleasantly surprised to find this entertaining story.

“Tuck Everlasting” is rated PG for some violence. A man with a dark past knows the Tuck’s secret and will do anything to gain immortality for himself. However, the problem of eternal life and its implications isn’t the only thing threatening their blossoming romance. They keep her from returning home in order to make her see the necessity of keeping the spring a secret.Īs Winnie’s family desperately searches for her, Winnie and Jesse begin to fall in love. The source of their everlasting life is a spring flowing from an old tree. The Tuck family has a secret that they don’t want Winnie to tell. There she encounters a young man by the name of Jesse Tuck and his family. One day while walking in the woods her father owns she becomes lost. Tired of her mother’s prim and proper ways, she longs to get out and have fun in the world. In the early 1900’s, Winnie Foster is a young teenager who lives with her rich, domineering parents.

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