Tuck Everlasting
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Tuck Everlasting is a children's book by Natalie Babbitt published in 1975. Tuck Everlasting has been turned into two films by the same name. The first film was released in 1981. Disney's 2002 version was directed by Jay Russell and starred Victor Garber, Jonathan Jackson, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek and Alexis Bledel.
Story
The story involves the Tucks, a family who drank from a magic spring and became immortal (hence the name "Tuck Everlasting").
In the novel, set in the late 19th century, the protagonist is ten-year-old Winifred Foster. She comes from a well-bred, straitlaced family and becomes lost in the woods one day during an attempt to escape her smothered lifestyle. In the woods, she encounters the Tuck family, a band of immortals due to a spring from which they drank years ago. The novel ultimately puts up an argument for mortality and why it is necessary by using the Tucks as an example.
Differences between films/movie
- Winifred is not 10 years old in the movie.
- The beginning of the movie features Jesse Tuck on a motorcycle, while the beginning of the book is just an explanation of the occurring events.
- Winifred befriends a toad in the book, but completely ignores it in the movie.
- Jesse and Winnie fall in love, go swimming, and kiss in the movie, but in the book Winnie does not do any of that.
- In the movie, Winifred runs from her parent's car to go play baseball, but in the book she never left the house except for when she ran away.
- In the movie Winnie lives in a mansion, but in a cottage in the book.
- In the book she lived from 1870-1948 but in the movie she lived from 1899-1999.Template:Child-film-stub