No exceptions." So it appears Winnie must die to protect the secret of the Tucks and their spring. Earlier, Angus Tuck had spied a stranger in a yellow coat skulking about, and warned the family: "Any strangers in the woods-getting too close-you know what to do. Although this is not explained, it must stop your mental as well as your physical aging, because at 104, Jesse is not yet desperately bored by being 17. "The spring stops you right where you are," Winnie is told, and that's why Jesse has been 17 for all these years. Years ago, they drank from the spring and have become immortal. Mae and Angus, Mom and Dad, are played by Sissy Spacek and William Hurt. He warns her against drinking from a spring at the foot of a big old tree, and then his older brother Miles ( Scott Bairstow) grabs her and brings her back to their forest cottage on horseback. One day, Winnie up and walks in the woods, and meets a young man named Jesse ( Jonathan Jackson). Her mother ( Amy Irving) frowns disapprovingly on just about anything, but is especially certain that Winnie should never talk to strangers or walk alone in the woods. The movie, shot in rural Maryland (Blair Witch country), tells of a young woman named Winnie Foster ( Alexis Bledel) who feels stifled by strict family rules. But wiser still was Socrates, who said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." The immortals in "Tuck Everlasting" have not examined their endless lives, and the teenage mortal scarcely has a thought in her pretty little head. It contains a lesson: "Do not fear death-but rather the unlived life." Wise indeed. "Tuck Everlasting" is based on a novel well known to middle school students but not to me, about a romance between two teenagers, one of whom is 104.
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