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.
A successful merger of the whimsical and the weird.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
14 Oct 2002
rotten:
Bledel and Jonathan Jackson's gorge-side canoodling drifts dangerously close to Blue Lagoon territory.
– Ed Park,
Village Voice,
15 Oct 2002
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,
17 Oct 2002
rotten:
Those with the patience to submit to its low-energy charms may find their time well spent.
– Jocelyn Noveck,
Associated Press,
18 Oct 2002
fresh:
Harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research.