Ever thought of living forever? What if someone gave you that chance, would you take it?

A whimsical romance set in 1914, between a countryman and a wealthy young lady ponders the thought of what life would be like if we could live forever.

Tuck Everlasting is a movie about growing up, adventuring outside the gates into the unknown, and being adventurous and the mysterious secret about the woods.

The story begins with a young girl named Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel), who is a child of a wealthy family and wants to leave her controlling mother and see the world.

She gets caught playing ball with the town boys and her parents demand that she is sent to boarding school to become sophisticated.

She refuses and flees outside the gates of her mansion -like home and wanders into the mysterious woods. With it being late in the day, she begins to panic about getting home and starts to run through the brush and her skirt is torn.

She stumbles upon a young man, who is not well dressed, drinking water from the bottom of a tree.

The young man is Jesse Tuck ( Jonathan Jackson), who is one of four Tuck’s who live in the mysterious woods away from town.

Jesse is startled by her standing there and asks her why is a girl like her out in the woods at this late of night. She admits to him that she is lost and wants to go home, but would like a drink of water first. Jesse tells her “no” and attempts to take her home when his brother who is bitter to everyone in the world shows up and takes her away to the cabin.

When arriving at the cabin she is introduced to the Tuck family and how they go about daily life. They don’t have the same mannerism that Winnie has been brought up with though she gets used to their lifestyle.

In the mean time her family begins to search for her in the woods and around town. There is a man in a yellow suit presented in the early part of the story but we really don’t get to know him until the Foster Family begins to look for Winnie. He says he might know where she is at, but cannot help the family if they wont give him information he needs. He is looking for a “long lost relative” referring to the Tuck’s because he has something that will make him a rich man and live forever.

The man in the yellow suit is quite the smart mouth and is very mysterious he just pops up out of the blue. I like the man in the yellow suit for his humor and wit. I love it when he is in the graveyard and challenges the priest with questions of living forever.

During her time away from home Winnie and Jesse start to fall in love. Winnie learns what life is outside the gates of her home. She becomes adventurous and free from all the formal living.

Jesse wants to tell Winnie the secret of the woods and is about to tell her when his brother interrupts him. She begs them to tell her the secret.

The brother tells her the story of how they are invincible and that the water is special water that makes them not die and live forever.

Without explaining too much more about the story it holds a very surprising ending.

The movie is full of romance, rebellion, freedom and the question of living forever if you could.

It is one Disney movie that I think audiences would appreciate seeing and leave with no regrets.

The main thing that I think people should consider if they take little kids to see this movie is that it might fly right over their heads. The PG rating is ok, but I think some of the language and concept of the movie goes way above a12 year old head. Though it is a very family oriented movie. Tuck Everlasting is full of scenes that will make you laugh about how we think in a tunnel vision sometimes. Would it ever be possible to live forever? As much as we constantly hear and read it in greeting cards and the language of love such as a key point that Jesse says at the end “I will love you till the day I die.” It is ironic because he will never die.

Throughout the story questions keep being asked about life and death.

It makes the audience contemplate if they would want to live forever.

How would one handle seeing generations and generations people dying, see war and feel guilty for not being able to die? See all the good with all the bad and not be able to die for your country.

Would living forever cause you more pain than happiness? All these things that one has to contemplate before drinking the water from the tree.

I never really thought about if I would ever want to live forever. Now that I have seen the movie, I haven’t stop thinking about the question. I have come to the conclusion that I wouldn’t want to live forever because it would just be painful for me to see everything happen around me die and go to ruins. There is a time for birth and there is a time for death without death the life cycle can’t continue.

It’s those questions about living forever that are answered in the end of the story, but for the audience the questions go on.

Would you want to live forever?