Tuck Everlasting (1981 film)
| Tuck Everlasting | |
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| Directed by | Frederick King Keller |
| Produced by | Howard Kling Frederick King Keller |
| Written by |
Natalie Babbitt (novel) Fred A. Keller Frederick King Keller |
| Starring | Margaret Chamberlain Paul Fleesa Fred A. Keller James McGuire Sonia Raimi |
| Music by |
Malcolm Dalglish Grey Larsen |
| Cinematography | Michael Mathews |
| Distributed by | One Pass Media |
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Release date
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June 5, 1981 |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tuck Everlasting is a 1981 American film based on Natalie Babbitt's 1975 children's book of the same title.
After Keller made the T.V. movie Skeleton Key, he met up with Natalie Babbitt at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He liked her novel Tuck Everlasting and decided to produce and direct a film based on it. Filming was done in 1980 and was released on June 6, 1981. The film isn't well known, as most people associate "Tuck Everlasting" with the book or Tuck Everlasting (2002 film). However, the film can be found on VHS and rarely on DVD. It used to occasionally air on T.V.
The story involves the Tucks, a family who drank from a magic spring from the Fosters' little forest and became immortal (hence the name "Tuck Everlasting").
During an autumn harvest carnival in the fictional town of Treegap at the turn of the century, somewhere in upstate New York, a young man named Jesse Tuck (Paul Flessa), who is immortal, is riding on the Ferris wheel where he works. He decides to show off the crowd by doing dangerous stunts. People begin to notice including a man in a "jaunty" yellow suit. The man who runs the Ferris wheel stops its motor, causing it to stop spinning which leaves Jesse on top. This makes a constable to threaten to charge the man if the boy gets hurt. Jesse begins doing dangerous stunts which frightens the crowd. The Ferris wheel's brake wasn't on and when somebody bumps into it, it causes the wheel to turn causing Jesse to fall to the ground, making people think he broke many bones. After sitting, Jesse opens his eyes and jumps up, scaring the crowd. They eventually find it funny when the constable begins chasing after Jesse but Jesse escapes on a horse to a forest. This interests the man; the only person not laughing.
Meanwhile, a very depressed, bored 12 year old girl Winifred Foster (Margaret Chamberlain) is sitting on her front lawn. She is so bored that she begins talking to a turtle which goes waddling by. She tells the turtle how much she hates it at home, and that she is not allowed to go to the fair. Two boys talking about Jesse are walking by. After talking to the turtle her mother and Grandmother call her in for lunch and then to practice piano. She says goodbye to the turtle as it goes to hide in a bush.
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