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Tuck Everlasting

A beautiful and stunningly gorgeous film set in Maryland looks at life, death, and the possibilities of living forever.

If you had the chance to drink from the fountain of youth, would you? Would there be any doubts that happiness would forever be the path you would walk on? Would you be willing to give up everyone and everything you have ever known to live your life forever in secret? For some, this may be a blessing; for others, a curse.

This is the story of the Tuck family—father Angus (William Hurt), mother Mae (Sissy Spacek), brother Miles (Scott Bairsotw), and younger brother Jesse (Jonathan Jackson)—who were walking through the woods one day and stopped to take a drink from a stream; that one day was over one hundred years ago.

Today they quietly remain apart of those woods which gave them their eternity, but not without a cost. A peculiar man (Ben Kingsley) who's been following the two sons is getting closer to understanding the secret that the Tuck family possesses.

Pain remains forever in their hearts and minds. Memories bring such sadness at times. There is no escape, and that is something they will all have to live with...forever.

Young Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledeh) lives in the stately house by the woods and is not like the other girls in town. She enjoys getting dirty, playing sports, and is enchanted with nature. Her rigid mother (Amy Irving) and soft-spoken father (Victor Garber) want her to go to a boarding school to develop appropriate manners.

Horrified, Winnie runs from the house and into the woods. Feeling scared and lost, Winnie looks for a way out of the thickly settled woods. Winnie makes her way though an overpass of branches and surprises Jesse who is drinking from the fountain.

Jesse isn't taken by this stranger and wants her to leave, so does his brother Miles who goes to a greater length by capturing Winnie and bringing her back to where the boys' parents are so they may come up with a plan on how to keep their secret from going beyond the woods.

Now Winnie is faced with meeting a shocking secret the Tucks hold and must prove that she won't tell of their secret.

Time is passing quickly, and the strange man is gaining foot and now has the backing of the Foster family and control of their woods in return for finding their daughter, who's now falling in love with Jesse.

A sweet and magical thought-provoking film that gently introduces feelings of love, regrets, changes, and what's most important to a young girl's hopes for her future.

A lovely and touching film. A classic for romantics.

Written by: Lynda Dale MacLean

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