Tuck everlasting [videorecording] / Walt Disney Pictures presents a Beacon Pictures/Scholastic Entertainment/Jane Startz production, a film by Jay Russell ; producers, Jane Startz, Marc Abraham ; screenplay writer, Jeffrey Lieber, James V. Hart ; director, Jay Russell.
Based on the book by Natalie Babbitt. Special features: audio commentary with director Jay Russell and cast members Jonathan Jackson, Alexis Bledel and Scott Bairstow; audio commentary with Jay Russell and screenwriter James Hart; "Lessons of Tuck" - viewing mode that couples the movie with opportunities to explore the film's themes and issues with Jonathan Jackson, other cast memebers and regular kids; "A visit with Natalie Babbitt" - featurette with the novels author. Alexis Bledel, Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Victor Garber, Jonathan Jackson, Scott Bairstow, William Hurt.
Summary:
Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret-- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring.
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