![]() ![]() ![]() Jesse tells Winnie to drink from the spring so that she will live forever and never age, and that he will come back for her when all is safe, then leaves, promising to love her until the day he dies. Jesse, who has fallen in love with Winnie, asks her to join them, but Angus warns her that it is dangerous to go with them as they will be hunted. ![]() Winnie helps Jesse and Miles to break the Tucks out of jail and says goodbye to them. The family fears that if Mae is hanged the next day, she won't die and their immortality will be exposed to the public. Mae is sentenced to be hanged for murdering the man.Īfter being returned home, Winnie is woken by Jesse, who begs her to help him free his parents. A constable arrives and arrests Mae and Angus. He calls their bluff by shooting Jesse and exposing his immortality but in return Jesse's mother, Mae, kills him with the butt end of a rifle. He goes to the Tucks and orders them to reveal where the spring is when they deny any knowledge of it, he threatens Winnie with a pistol. He makes a deal to return Winnie in exchange for the forest. He spies on the Tucks and desires the spring to sell the water. They tell her that living forever is more painful than it sounds, and that they believe giving away the secret of the spring will lead everyone to want to drink from it and worry it might fall into the wrong hands.Ī man in a yellow suit befriends the Fosters while Winnie is gone. She learns that, by drinking water from a magic spring around a hundred years ago, the Tucks cannot age or be injured, and that they kidnapped her to hide the secret. She becomes enamored with their slow and simple way of life and falls in love with Jesse. She is kidnapped by his older brother Miles and brought back to the Tucks' home where they tell her they will return her as soon as they can trust her. After being told that she will go to a boarding school, she runs off into the forest, where she meets Jesse Tuck, who is drinking from a spring at the foot of a great tree. ![]() Narrated by Elisabeth Shue, the film stars Alexis Bledel, Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Victor Garber, Jonathan Jackson, Scott Bairstow and William Hurt.ġ5-year-old Winnie Foster is from an upper-class family in the town of Treegap in 1914, and wants to make her own choices in life. Hart, based on Natalie Babbitt's 1975 book of the same name. She accepts that she has to go to jail for this, though her family breaks her out and they run away so that Mae doesn't get sentenced to death by hanging, which would give away the secret.Tuck Everlasting is a 2002 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Jay Russell and written by Jeffrey Lieber and James V. To stop him from making Winnie drink the water, Mae hits the man over the head with her rifle and kills him. This discussion becomes even more difficult when the man in the yellow suit, who heard about the Tucks from his grandmother, arrives to take Winnie away and says he wants to sell the water. Because of this, she believes that it's extremely important that she and her family make it clear to Winnie that immortality isn't actually something that anyone wants to have. Though Mae accepts her lot in life, she understands that being immortal is hard for Miles and Jesse, who were ready to live adult lives and, because of their immortality, never really got the opportunity to do so. In reality, Mae meets her sons, Miles and Jesse, in the wood every ten years and she winds up her music box while she's in the wood. Mae carries a small music box with her everywhere and after she meets Winnie, she discovers that Winnie's Granny thinks that the music comes from elves. She finds her husband Angus's tendency to dwell on his immortality and think of it as a bad thing tiring and unproductive. Mae is of the mind that life is meant to be lived, no matter how long or short a person's life might be. She's more than 100 years old because, 87 years before the start of the novel, she and her family unwittingly drank water from a magical brook that made them immortal. ![]()
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