Fresh
Harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tuck Everlasting
If you could choose to live forever, would you?
2002 · 1h 30m · PG
Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by
Jay Russell
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Tuck Everlasting
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Jay Russell Director
- Alexis Bledel as Winnie Foster
- William Hurt as Angus Tuck
- Sissy Spacek as Mae Tuck
- Jonathan Jackson as Jesse Tuck
- Scott Bairstow as Miles Tuck
- Ben Kingsley as Man in the Yellow Suit
- Amy Irving as Mother Foster
- Victor Garber as Robert Foster
- Kosha Engler as Miles' Wife
- Richard Pilcher as Constable
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
61%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Those with the patience to submit to its low-energy charms may find their time well spent.
Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press
Fresh
Any movie that signals the menace of a potential lynching by zooming its camera through the loop of a gallows noose cannot claim subtlety, but director Jay Russell never lets the swirling emotions of Tuck become too drippy.
Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
Bledel and Jonathan Jackson's gorge-side canoodling drifts dangerously close to Blue Lagoon territory.
Ed Park, Village Voice
Fresh
A successful merger of the whimsical and the weird.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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