One of the things that I liked about Tuck Everlasting is that it conceded that in the coming age secrets like what the Tuck family has would be harder to keep. And the Tucks have a secret well worth keeping. They were at that time before World War I acknowledging the faster methods of communication and transportation would make it impossible. In 2002 when the film was released we are now passed the industrial age and into the age of communication. You know someone would find out and post it on the web.The secret of the Tucks is that they've found the secret of immortality in a spring located deep in the woods where they've settled. The family is parents William Hurt and Sissy Spacek and sons the brooding Scott Bairstow and the eternally youthful Jonathan Jackson.The property however is owned by Victor Garber and Amy Irving and they've got a daughter Alexis Bledel whom they keep most sheltered. One day she wonders into the Tuck woods and meets the family. She nearly drinks from the spring and can't understand why the Tucks warn her away. But she experiences a first love with Jackson and they are a pair of the most romantic lovers you will ever meet.It's a regular Garden of Eden the Tucks have, but there's a serpent there and it's in the form of Ben Kingsley. Kingsley has heard rumors of this fountain of youth and immortality and he's here to find it and exploit it as he feels that only certain people should enjoy immortality. As the film builds Kingsley grows more evil and more serpentine, he will really creep you out.This film bears comparison to the Highlander movies and TV series and a bit of comparison to Sean Connery's science fiction classic Zardoz. All deal with immortality and what a trap it can be if you think about it. The Tucks have it better than Duncan McLeod, he can go if he's decapitated. A highland broadsword wouldn't even penetrate the skin of a Tuck.Tuck Everlasting is really about Bledel and Jackson and a love that can never be. Scott Bairstow has an effective scene about the family he raised who have all gone and left him alone for an eternity. Fitting that Tuck Everlasting should be a product of the Disney studios because the film has an aura of magic and it's fitting it come from the Magic Kingdom. It's a charming fantasy, you can't do much better with films of fantasy than this one.

Disney's adaptation of Natalie Babbitt's beloved childhood novel is not as powerful as it tries to come across as. Winnie is aged so that she and Jamie can have a more romantic story-line and so the heart of the story will be their tragic love for each other. But it is just so unnecessary. The original novel holds true wisdom because this little girl, in the prime of her innocence and childhood youth can see that everlasting life is not all it's cracked up to be and she decides to let time play a part in her decision. But in the movie Winnie is grown and in love with Jamie, so her decision is odd. I for one could not see why she wouldn't be forever happy with the man she loves.That small alteration is about the only difference from book to film, but it is a fatal one. In changing the age of the main character you change the essence of the story and it in turn loses everything that was everlasting about it. This overdone Romeo and Juliet bit is so prosaic that you cannot even really feel bad for the lovers when they are inevitably torn apart by circumstance, distance and eventually, time.This will not be the definitive film version and I eagerly await another go at it. 6/10

romance. mystery. a sweet lesson about purpose of life. a seductive cast. air of fairy tale. maybe, it is a not great movie. only touching,fragile,waft, delicate, decent play with a not new idea. that kind of film who remembers values and magic and the art of splendid actors without have spectacular ambition. because it is only a soup for soul soup , out of usual cages of melodrama. it seems be a song and the option for Alexis Bledel and Jonathan Jackson is really inspired in this sense. a nice film about a deep dream of each of us. a seductive theme, more important than small errors, and precise tools for give it brilliance.

story of the movie is like a fairy tale so while watching it, time is passing faster. end of the movie is hard to predict so this makes it enjoyable. sometimes the movie has a tension so it doesn't make you get bored.secondly the atmosphere and places of the movie is really good, it is all forest and there are really nice lakes around. acting is also good. even there are two famous actors and an actress. the movie also questioning what will happen if we live forever.finally this is a movie worth watchable but don't expect much. if you like mystery, fairy tale and love movies take a look at this one.