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Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting

Drama · Family · Fantasy · 2002

Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater freedom and adventure.

Movie details

Tuck Everlasting

“If you could choose to live forever, would you?”

2002 Drama · Family · Fantasy 1h 30m

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6.7 / 10

Community rating

Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater freedom and adventure.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

Who fights over Tuck Everlasting?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Jay Russell

Written by

Jeffrey Lieber · James V. Hart

Alexis Bledel

Alexis Bledel

Winnie Foster

William Hurt

William Hurt

Angus Tuck

Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Mae Tuck

Jonathan Jackson

Jonathan Jackson

Jesse Tuck

Scott Bairstow

Scott Bairstow

Miles Tuck

Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley

Man in the Yellow Suit

Amy Irving

Amy Irving

Mother Foster

Court is in session

Put Tuck Everlasting on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.