So perhaps we should be grateful that Winnie, the heroine of the 1975 “young adult” fantasy novel Tuck Everlasting, has been bumped up from 10 to 11 for the musical adaptation that just opened on Broadway: She is that much more bearable. The age of a show’s protagonist often provides a clue to the age of the audience the show is pitched to: Patrick in American Psycho is 27 Jenna in Waitress is “in her thirties” the character Frank Langella plays in The Father is 80 going on dead. That's why the outcome of the romance is so unsatisfactory.From Tuck Everlasting, at the Broadhurst. He further writes that the film's message is questionable, opining "the injunction to live life fully need not come with a time limit. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two stars out of four, writing that the film "is too impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value". On Metacritic, the film has a 66 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The critical consensus reads, "Though slow-moving, Tuck Everlasting raises big issues and explores them with sensitivity". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 60% rating based on 120 reviews, with an average rating of 6.30/10. On a $15 million budget, Tuck Everlasting grossed $19,161,999 in the US and $182,616 in other territories for a worldwide total of $19,344,615.
Jesse sits at her grave, smiling through his tears and remembering her. The stone reads that Winnie became a wife and mother before passing away at 100 years of age. He goes into the woods and at the base of the great tree finds Winnie's headstone marking the site where the spring once stood. More than 85 years later, in the present day, Jesse returns to Treegap on a motorcycle.
After the Tucks depart, Winnie chooses not to drink the water, as Angus warned her that being immortal is far worse than living a typical life and that she should not fear death. Jesse tells Winnie to drink from the spring so that she will live forever and never age, and that he will come back for her when all is safe, then leaves, promising to love her until the day he dies. Jesse, who has fallen in love with Winnie, asks her to join them, but Angus warns her that it is dangerous to go with them as they will be hunted. Winnie helps Jesse and Miles to break the Tucks out of jail and says goodbye to them. The family fears that if Mae is hanged the next day, she won't die and their immortality will be exposed to the public.
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Mae is sentenced to be hanged for murdering the man.Īfter being returned home, Winnie is woken by Jesse, who begs her to help him free his parents. A constable arrives and arrests Mae and Angus. He calls their bluff by shooting Jesse and exposing his immortality but in return Jesse's mother, Mae, kills him with the butt end of a rifle. He goes to the Tucks and orders them to reveal where the spring is when they deny any knowledge of it, he threatens Winnie with a pistol. He makes a deal to return Winnie in exchange for the forest.
He spies on the Tucks and desires the spring to sell the water. They tell her that living forever is more painful than it sounds, and that they believe giving away the secret of the spring will lead everyone to want to drink from it and worry it might fall into the wrong hands.Ī man in a yellow suit befriends the Fosters while Winnie is gone.
She learns that, by drinking water from a magic spring around a hundred years ago, the Tucks cannot age or be injured, and that they kidnapped her to hide the secret. She becomes enamored with their slow and simple way of life and falls in love with Jesse. She is kidnapped by his older brother Miles and brought back to the Tucks' home where they tell her they will return her as soon as they can trust her. After being told that she will go to a boarding school, she runs off into the forest, where she meets Jesse Tuck, who is drinking from a spring at the foot of a great tree. Narrated by Elisabeth Shue, the film stars Alexis Bledel, Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Victor Garber, Jonathan Jackson, Scott Bairstow and William Hurt.ġ5-year-old Winnie (Winifred) Foster is from an upper-class family in the town of Treegap in 1914, and wants to make her own choices in life. Hart that's based on Natalie Babbitt’s 1975 book of the same name. Tuck Everlasting is a 2002 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Jay Russell and written by Jeffrey Lieber and James V.
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