Tuck Everlasting (2002) Critic Reviews

Perhaps the best teen date movie ever set in the year 1914, "Tuck" represents a brave leap against the tide. No sex, no car crashes and minimal violence. It just might be a hit.Read the full review

A sweeping romantic fable about love and mortality, targets an audience of girls in their early teens, but has been made with such skill and sensitivity that its appeal spans generations.Read the full review

Not a typical Disney family film -- thank god. Charming and thought-provoking, this is the kind of movie with the sweetness necessary to appeal to younger (although not too young) viewers and the philosophical richness to draw in veteran movie-goers.Read the full review

A dreamy adaptation of Natalie Babbitt's cherished 1975 children's novel.Read the full review

An effective, well-made film that will certainly please its target audience of preteen girls.Read the full review

Disney's tradition of intelligent, live-action family period cinema is magnificently revived in Tuck Everlasting.Read the full review

These actors offset the modern-day ordinariness of the leads -- Jackson, especially, seems as if he's just driven over from a mall tour -- and so, ultimately, does the exquisite moral dilemma of Tuck Everlasting.Read the full review

Sweet, family-friendly and philosophically complex, Tuck Everlasting is an unexpected delight.Read the full review

Unfortunately, Russell paces the film as if trying to demonstrate what eternity feels like. When the plot begs to move forward, the film keeps lingering over friendly fawns and long walks through the forest.Read the full review