Tuck Everlasting
For some, time passes slowly.
An hour can seem an eternity.
For others,
there's never enough.
For the Tucks, it didn't exist.
Time is like a wheel...
turning and turning,
never stopping
and the woods are the center,
the hub of the wheel.
of summer
a strange and breathless time,
when accident, or fate
bring lives together
when people are led
to do things
they've never done before.
On this summer's day,
not so very long ago
in mysterious ways.
It set Mae Tuck out
in her wagon
for the village of Treegap
to meet her two sons as she did
once every ten years.
Ma!
Miles!
Jesse!
Oh...!
Oh, I missed you.
What are you doing here?
Oh, I couldn't wait to see you.
I missed you, Jesse.
Oh, wait,
I got something for you.
Oh, look at you.
I got something.
Here, look.
The Eiffel Tower.
Would you look at that.
Got it in Paris, France.
Oh, Mom,
you've never seen anything
- So tall in your life.
- Hello...
Oh, I got something else.
I got something else.
How are you, old friend?
Your favorite... chocolates.
Oh, I've died
and gone to Heaven.
Oh, Jesse.
Miles...
Miles.
Give your mother a hug.
Ten years.
You're as cozy as barbed wire.
I have you back.
Winifred!
Winifred!
Yes, Mother?
I need a new name.
One that's not all worn out
Come inside this instant.
You're getting filthy!
Ow! I can scarcely breathe.
"You must suffer
to be beautiful."
So say the French.
The French are crazy.
For Winnie Foster
one thing was true:
the heat of summer was not
nearly as stifling
as the formality of her life.
the feeling grew stronger.
She was coming closer
to the end of something
and moving towards
the beginning of something new.
Change was in the air.
It was only a question of when.
Wait for me in the car.
I won't be a minute.
In the car, Mrs. Foster.
Throw it home! Throw it home!
Come on, throw it home!
- Go!
- Run to me!
Yay!
No, no, no, no, no.
Too large for tea cakes.
None of these will do.
What kind of a funny hat
is that?
Well, look'ee here.
If it's not Miss Moneybags
in her fancy car.
What's the matter?
Don't want
to get your feet dirty?
Well, I'm sorry, Mrs. Foster.
Not much call
for such treats out here.
Well, I could just make them up
for you, special.
Winnie Foster?
You've got to be kidding!
Wow!
Winnie, run!
Run, Winnie, run!
Throw it! Throw it!
Throw it home! Come on!
Slide, Winnie, slide!
Winifred!
Oh, and they had
their arms crossed
and you see, the lines
were perfectly square.
Come here, come here.
I want to teach you. Come on.
Oh, all the way from France.
How about that?
Oh, look. Look-Look at this one.
I want to see, Pop. Let me see.
Look it.
Oh! Aah, he shot me!
Oh, I'm dead!
Oh, oh, my!
- Oh, my!
Oh, you'll have to see this one.
Miles, look at this!
Oh... let's see.
Okay, come here,
I want to show you.
I want to show you.
All right.
Good to have you home, son.
I'm glad to see you.
And the family together.
But don't get used to it.
War's coming, I hear.
I'm joining up.
Get as far away
from this place as I can.
Oh, you think
that'll solve things, do you?
You haven't had enough killing
for two lifetimes?
Somebody's on to us.
I know it.
There's a man who's been
following us
and we've lost him
several times, but...
This man...
Jesse...
- Whoo!
We're being tracked.
Oh, Miles, we lost him.
Don't go spoiling everything.
Yeah, we lost him, Jess...
It was only a matter of time
I saw tire marks down
on the lower wash...
a few weeks ago.
There'll be more.
I don't want anyone going
to town.
Not for anything,
and that's that.
Tuck.
You see any strangers
in the woods getting too close
you know what to do.
No exceptions.
Our time here is almost done.
I can feel it.
You'll never catch one that way.
Do you know
about catching fireflies?
Afraid not, never tried.
I prefer... bigger game.
Though I suspect the strategy
is much the same.
Strategy?
One must never announce
one's presence to the prey.
One must become part
of the scenery...
invisible...
almost disappear.
And be patient
until the exact, right moment
arrives...
Take a prisoner.
For you?
No, thank you.
You're quite right.
A girl of your age
should find...
trapping suitors
more interesting
than trapping insects, anyway.
Far easier, I might add.
Have you lived here long?
Forever. Why?
I'm... looking
for some old friends
who live hereabouts.
Thought you might
help me find them.
My father
practically built Treegap.
He knows everyone.
Perhaps he can help you.
Perhaps.
Winifred?
Winifred, who are you talking to
out there?
I don't know.
He hasn't told me his name.
Good evening, madam.
Please forgive my intrusion.
you've lived here forever.
of a certain family
goes by the name of...
I hardly know everyone,
nor do I want to.
And I don't stand outside
discussing such a thing
with... strangers.
Then I beg your pardon.
Good evening, young lady.
Madam.
This is why I worry
about you, Winifred.
You don't have the sense
not to talk to a man like that.
entr into society.
Your mother and I have given
this a great deal of thought.
Middlehouse Academy for Girls
in Pensford,
has an excellent reputation.
Middlehouse?
But that's a terrible place,
everyone says so.
It's like a jail.
Nonsense.
Girls emerge from there
well-versed in etiquette
and manners,
both of which
you are sorely lacking.
But I don't want to be
one of those girls.
Which is precisely why
you must go.
I cannot let
your unbridled nature
ruin your chances
for a respectable future.
Winifred... I'm sorry...
but we have to do
what's best for you.
I won't do it.
I'm not like those girls.
I won't go!
Winifred!
I won't go!
Winnie Foster was to be sent
500 miles away to be educated.
But what her parents didn't
understand
was she only wanted to step
just outside her fence...
so she did.
should be so forbidden?
Winnie had always sensed
a mystery
waiting for her there.
It was a place so entirely
different from what she knew
so far away from her tight,
pruned world.
Ah!
Ah...
How long have you been
standing there?
Not long at all.
I was only walking past,
and I...
Well, you shouldn't...
be in these parts of the woods.
It's best you turn around
and go home.
Well, go on, now, get!
Excuse me,
but I own these woods, and...
I'll go on and get
when I want to.
You own these woods?
Yes, I do.
What's your name?
Winifred.
Winnie... Foster.
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