It doesn't take long for Winnie to discover something exciting her journeys quickly bring her into contact with Jesse Tuck (Jonathan Jackson), a boy who appears to be her age. Her parents' decision to send her away to a boarding school pushes Winnie over the edge: she runs off to explore the world, or at least the woods neighboring her family's impressive house. Her family's wealth and sensibilities leave her an involuntarily sheltered young lady. In Disney's adaptation, protagonist Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is a 17-year-old girl living in 1910s America. By the spring of 2001, when filming began on Tuck, all parties seemed capable to handle this project. In the years that passed, though, Startz and Scholastic graduated to the big screen, translating to cinema a trio of widely-read works: The Indian in the Cupboard and The Baby-Sitters Club in the summer of 1995 and the Miramax-distributed The Mighty in 1998.
Back then, Scholastic had intentions to tap Tuck for an after-school or weekend ABC special like the others the company was making. More than twenty years earlier, Scholastic reportedly expressed displeasure that Keller had optioned the film rights and wouldn't sell them. Disney's version - titled, like the book and little-known previous cinematic adaptation, Tuck Everlasting - would be produced by Scholastic Entertainment, the media company best known for publishing children's books, and an independent production company that was recently launched by Scholastic co-founder Jane Startz. But, with the genre seemingly destined to be in vogue, Disney was game for making a new, respectably-budgeted feature adaptation of Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt's popular 1975 novel.īabbitt's tale was initially put on film in 1981 by first-time director Fred Keller, a local Rochester, New York group of actors (including his co-screenwriter father), a 7-person crew, and a budget of $60,000. Not a frame of The Chronicles of Narnia would be shot until three installments of both Rings and Potter had each grossed more than $200 million in North American theaters. Disney was not, however, willing to come to the table with a $100 million per-film budget on par with the ambitious franchises New Line and Warner were working on Rowling's Harry Potter series, Walt Disney Pictures became part of the fashionable trend of bringing young adult fantasy literature to the big screen. Hart (screenplay) Natalie Babbitt (novel)Ĭast: Alexis Bledel (Winnie Foster), William Hurt (Angus Tuck), Sissy Spacek (Mae Tuck), Jonathan Jackson (Jesse Tuck), Scott Bairstow (Miles Tuck), Ben Kingsley (Man in the Yellow Suit), Amy Irving (Mother Foster), Victor Garber (Robert Foster), Kosha Engler (Miles' Wife), Richard Pilcher (Constable), Elisabeth Shue (Narrator)Įarly this decade, when there existed near-global anticipation for filmings of J.R.R.
Theatrical Release: Octo/ Running Time: 90 Minutes / Rating: PGĭirector: Jay Russell / Writers: Jeffrey Lieber, James V.
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