Tuck Everlasting is an adaptation of an acclaimed book into a underwhelming film. It is set in the early 1900s, The Tuck family have drank from a stream which has made them immortal and they have no aged. Jesse Tuck looks 17 years old despite being 104. So far so Twilight without any vampires about.
A teenage girl from a well to do family Winifred stumbles into the stream and sees Jesse drinking from there and he in order to keep the stream secret abducts her and they fall for each other as she finds out the family's secret. Why he keeps on drinking from the stream is never explained.
Winnie's family feared that she is kidnapped falls prey to a mysterious man in a yellow suit who has been tracking down the Tucks as he seems to know about their secret as well.
In the end Winnie must decide whether she drinks from the fountain of youth or live a normal life.
The film has three Oscar winning actors in Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek and William Hurt. Kingsley brings a bit of malevolence as the man in the yellow suit. Scott Bairstow as Jesse's brother brings a bit of pathos regarding the curse of immortality as he saw his wife being driven mad.
The film is bland and subdued. Its a bare bones story which does not work as a love story or a mystery. You have to applaud Twilight for making more from similar ingredients as it actually dealt better with a man trapped in a youth's body for decades, repeating high school every few years, not getting too close with people as they will one day age and die. Here you question what has the Tuck family done with their lives given they are immortal apart from just living life in the backwoods.
A teenage girl from a well to do family Winifred stumbles into the stream and sees Jesse drinking from there and he in order to keep the stream secret abducts her and they fall for each other as she finds out the family's secret. Why he keeps on drinking from the stream is never explained.
Winnie's family feared that she is kidnapped falls prey to a mysterious man in a yellow suit who has been tracking down the Tucks as he seems to know about their secret as well.
In the end Winnie must decide whether she drinks from the fountain of youth or live a normal life.
The film has three Oscar winning actors in Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek and William Hurt. Kingsley brings a bit of malevolence as the man in the yellow suit. Scott Bairstow as Jesse's brother brings a bit of pathos regarding the curse of immortality as he saw his wife being driven mad.
The film is bland and subdued. Its a bare bones story which does not work as a love story or a mystery. You have to applaud Twilight for making more from similar ingredients as it actually dealt better with a man trapped in a youth's body for decades, repeating high school every few years, not getting too close with people as they will one day age and die. Here you question what has the Tuck family done with their lives given they are immortal apart from just living life in the backwoods.