Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Alexis Bledel | ... | Winnie Foster | |
William Hurt | ... | Angus Tuck | |
Sissy Spacek | ... | Mae Tuck | |
Jonathan Jackson | ... | Jesse Tuck | |
Scott Bairstow | ... | Miles Tuck | |
Ben Kingsley | ... | Man in the Yellow Suit | |
Amy Irving | ... | Mother Foster | |
Victor Garber | ... | Robert Foster | |
Kosha Engler | ... | Miles' Wife | |
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Richard Pilcher | ... | Constable |
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Bradley Coryell | ... | Lead Mill Boy |
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John Badila | ... | Baker |
Julia Hart | ... | Sally Hannaway | |
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Naomi Kline | ... | Beatrice Ruston |
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Kathryn Kelley | ... | Mrs. Hannaway |
Winnie Foster has everything a young woman could desire. She comes from a well-bred, wealthy, and respected family. She dresses in the finest clothes and is afforded every opportunity to refine herself. But Winnie finds that the heat of summer is not nearly as stifling as her gilded cage. She longs for freedom, for adventure. She escapes one morning to explore the woods surrounding her family's home, and encounters the Tucks, a close-knit family with a mysterious past that begs the question: If you could live forever, would you? And just when Winnie believes she has answered that question for herself, a mysterious man looking to profit from the source of the Tuck's immortality that will have her question her life, her desires, and what is the right thing to do. And in the end, learns, that death is not what is to be feared, but an unlived life. Written by Alyssa B.
Like many other people on this website, I myself had to read the novel upon which this film is based when I was in the sixth grade. I really can't remember it that much, but seeing the movie brought some of it back to me.
The movie strays from Babitt's novel in some ways, as the "love" between two central characters is romanticized slightly. Otherwise, the story is not changed all that much, but there are still a few minor changes to the story that I could remember.
Most of the cast was perfect. Ben Kingsley fits the role of The Man in the Yellow Suit pretty well. Out of place kinda are Sissy Spacek and William Hurt who have the minority roles in this film. They were still quite good, though.
The story flows nicely, but there were still a few scenes that were different as I had envisioned. I pictured the Treegap Constable having a bigger role, and I also envisioned there to be more 19th century costume and prop designs. Just some things to be kept in mind when the next remake of this novel comes out in another thirty years or so.
TUCK EVERLASTING: 4/5.