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Tuck Everlasting
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Directed by	Jay Russell
Produced by	Marc Abraham
Written by	Natalie Babbitt (novel) Jeffrey Lieber (screenplay James V. Hart (screenplay)
Narrated by	Elisabeth Shue
Starring	Alexis Bledel William Hurt Sissy Spacek Jonathan Jackson Scott Bairstow Ben Kingsley
Music by	William Ross
Cinematography	James L. Carter
Editing by	Jay Lash Cassidy
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	October 5, 2002
Running time	1 hr. 30 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$15,000,000 (estimated) [1]
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Tuck Everlasting is a 2002 film based on the children's book of the same title by Natalie Babbitt published in 1975.

This Disney version was directed by Jay Russell and starred Victor Garber, Jonathan Jackson, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek, and Alexis Bledel.

The story involves the Tucks, a family who drank from a magic spring in the Fosters' little forest and became immortal (hence the name "Tuck Everlasting").

In the movie, set in the early 20th century, the protagonist is a 15-year-old girl named Winifred Foster. She comes from a well-bred, straitlaced family and becomes lost in the woods one day during an attempt to escape her smothered lifestyle. In the woods, she encounters the Tuck family, a band of immortals due to a spring from which they drank years ago. The novel ultimately puts up an argument for mortality and why it is necessary by using the Tucks as an example.

In the film, Winnie and Jesse fall in love and she has to decide whether to drink from the spring so that she can be with him forever. In both the book and film she decides against it. The movie ends with Jesse visiting Winnie's grave in more modern times, sad that she was not with him but also happy that Winnie was not trapped in time like he and his family.

• Winnie is 15 or 16-years-old in the movie; in the book, she is 10-years-old.
• The movie is set in 1914, while the book is set in 1880.
• In the book, Winnie loved Jesse but his affections for her seemed to be as a friend since he was older than her. In the movie, Winnie and Jesse are about the same age and seem to mutually feel love for each other.
• In the movie, Mae is rescued from jail when Miles and Jesse stage an attack on Winnie to distract the sheriff. In the book, Miles takes the bars off the window, Mae climbs out, and Winnie goes in to take her place.
• In the movie, the man in the yellow suit attacks Jesse, to disprove Jesse's immortality. In the book, the man suggests that the Tucks perform deadly feats to prove the spring's powers to the public, but never actually attacks any of them.
• In the movie, it is Jesse who returns to find Winnie's gravestone, by the spring; in the book it is Tuck and Mae who return, finding the gravestone in a cemetery.

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• Sissy Spacek and Amy Irving had previously starred together in 1976, in Carrie.
• Much of the movie was filmed in Berlin, Maryland. The town's main street went through a large Hollywood renovation, including covering the streets in dirt, to portray the early 1900's fictional city of Treegap.^{[citation needed]}
• Many scenes were shot in Harford County, specifically at the King and Queen Seat in Rocks State Park, Kilgore Falls, Bulle Rocke, Christ Church Rock Spring, and other locations in Susquehanna State Park.^{[citation needed]}

• Tuck Everlasting (2002) at the Internet Movie Database
• Alexis Bledel interview for Tuck Everlasting