Jesse has brought some gifts for Mae: a small bronze replica of the Eiffel Tower, bought in Paris, and a box of French chocolate.
Mae's sons, Miles (Scott Bairstow) and Jesse make their way to her, and there is an emotional reunion. She window-shops along several stores, before sitting in her wagon, playing a wistful tune on her small music box. Mae rides her horse-drawn wagon through the dirt streets. After a brief image of a stately tree, with a T carved into the bark, the scenery changes to show Treegap as it was in 1914. As the scenery shifts to show a peaceful forest, the narrator goes on to say that the story begins on the first week of summer, 'not so very long ago,' when Treegap was a quaint village, and Mae Tuck (Sissy Spacek) went there every ten years to meet up with her sons.
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A narrator for the movie (Elisabeth Shue) recites a passage on the nature of time, and notes that for the Tuck family, it didn't exist. He takes off his helmet and looks at the estate wistfully. Jesse Tuck (Jonathan Jackson) rides his motorcycle through the town and makes his way to a gated house on the outskirts. Cars and pedestrian traffic make their way through the streets. Tuck Everlasting opens in the present day, in the town of Treegap.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. They tell her that living forever is more painful than it sounds and believe that giving away the secret of the spring will lead to everyone wanting to drink from it. She learns that the Tucks cannot age or be injured due to drinking water from a magic spring around a hundred years ago and that they kidnapped her to hide the secret. She becomes enamored of 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 is going to a boarding school, she runs off into the forest where she meets Jesse Tuck drinking from a spring at the foot of a great tree. With a mysterious man in a yellow suit trying to take Winnie away and find out the Tucks' secret, she has to decide to either join the Tucks on their long lasting journey or pretend she didn't hear about it at all.ġ5-year-old Winnie (Winifred) Foster is from an upper-class family in the town of Treegap, and wants to make her own choices in life. Winnie soon falls in love with Jesse and Mae, Jesse's mother, takes Winnie to tell her about their never ending story. That boy was Jesse Tuck and he was drinking from a spring that granted immortality. Not far into the woods, she sees a boy drinking from a fountain. Young Winnie Foster is a 10 year old girl who lives in a cottage near the wood in Treegap. When he makes a tough decision but doesn't accept Jesse's offer and live her life not afraid of death. Jesse is 17 but finds himself falling in love with Winnie so he gives her some spring water when she turns 17 they can be together forever. At first she's confused and very scared but then gets to know the family and that they all are immortal and very kind people. Winnie gets kidnapped by Jesse, his mother, and his brother. In the woods she comes across this boy named Jesse Tuck that was drinking from a spring that she finds out makes you immortal. Winnie just wants to face the world on her own and be independent so she heads off into the woods past their fenced house. She doesn't like that her family is so proper and strict and they don't let her cross past their fenced house. Her family is very proper, respectful and wealthy.
And in the end, learns, that death is not what is to be feared, but an unlived life.Ī little 10 year old girl named Winnie foster doesn't like her life so much. 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. But Winnie finds that the heat of summer is not nearly as stifling as her gilded cage. She dresses in the finest clothes and is afforded every opportunity to refine herself. She comes from a well-bred, wealthy, and respected family. Winnie Foster has everything a young woman could desire. A young woman meets and falls in love with a young man who is part of a family of immortals.
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