TUCK EVERLASTING

Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is a girl in her early teens growing up in the small rural town of Winesap in 1914. Winnie's parents (Victor Garber and Amy Irving) are loving but overprotective, and Winnie longs for a life of greater freedom and adventure. One day, while exploring the nearby woods, Winnie gets lost, but she has the good fortune to happen upon the Tuck Family, who live nearby - mother Mae (Sissy Spacek), father Angus (William Hurt), and sons Jesse (Jonathan Jackson) and Miles (Scott Bairstow). The Tucks are warm and caring people, and Winnie feels right at home with them; she also finds herself developing a serious crush on Jesse, and isn't so sure she wants to return; meanwhile, her parents become increasingly distraught as they search for their missing daughter. But in time Winnie discovers there's a secret behind the seemingly idyllic lives of the Tuck Family; they have discovered a magical spring on their property, and anyone who drinks from it will never grow old and never die. While to Winnie this sounds like a wonderful prospect, the Tucks have come to understand this is as much of a curse as a blessing, especially when she realizes Jesse is considerably older than she is. The Tucks also have to contend with the presence of the sinister Man In The Yellow Suit (Ben Kingsley), who wishes to buy their property and make a fortune from their "fountain of youth."

---> life has all kinds of challenges, different things to encounter, weird experiences and some unexplainable occurrences. and in this movie, all that seem to have happened. a secret that a family had kept for so long and maybe never knew how long it has been. this movie is yet another remarkable way of portraying another love story. and like any love stories, there comes happy times and the troubled times. in this film, the trouble comes when you have to decide whether to be with the one you love but with a catch: to forever live, to never die. it would be so wonderful to be with the one you love eternally but i think it would be so boring to live forever. yes you can experience and see all the changes made from one generation to another but what's the point in that?? you'll meet a lot of new great people but i think only one true love is enough. the film really didn't have a happy ending but what was more important was the time when they met and experienced true love. i guess what really matters is not how long we live in this world but how we live each day and make it as if it were the last.

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JESSE: Spend forever with me, Winnie?

ANGUS TUCK: If there's one thing I've learned about people, it's that many will do anything, anything not to die. And they'll do anything to keep from living their life.

ANGUS TUCK: What we Tucks have, you can't call it living. We just... are. We're like rocks, stuck at the side of a stream.

ANGUS TUCK: Don't be afraid of death, Winnie. Be afraid of the unlived life.

NARRATOR: For some time passes slowly, an hour can seem an eternity. For others there's never enough. For the Tucks, it didn't exist.

NARRATOR: Winnie Foster was beginning to lose track of time. Had she been there a day? A week? A month? It seemed to Winnie that the Tucks lived in a way the rest of the world had forgotten. They where never in a hurry and did things the slow way. For the first time Winnie felt free to explore, to ask questions, to play.

JESSE: How am I supposed to take you home when I can't make my feet move from this spot? If I could die tomorrow I would, just so I could spend one more night with you.

WINNIE: Jesse, don't let go!
JESSE: It's ok, it's ok. There's no chance of that, Winnie Foster. I'll never let you go

JESSE: Winnie Foster, I will love you until the day I die!