What Twilight star was also in the movie tuck everlasting?
Disney has always been hit-or-miss when bringing beloved kids’ books to the screen, and the studio’s latest — an adaptation of Natalie Babbit’s “Tuck Everlasting” — is a little of both. It’s an early 20th Century story of a curious, affluent teenage girl, stifled by her stiff-upper-lip period parents, who gets lost while seeking an afternoon of freedom in the deep woods behind her estate and meets an enticing young man with a mystical secret — drinking from a nearby spring has made him and his whole family immortal. Afraid of being discovered by the outside world that would covet what they’ve come to consider a curse, the Tuck clan feels they cannot let the young lady go home, even as the area is scoured by search parties. But before long Winnie (Alexis Bledel) isn’t exactly aching to leave, having come to know both freedom and romance with the handsome, worldly Jesse (Jonathan Jackson). Directed by Jay Russell, who deftly navigated the trappings of a 1950s coming-of-age story in “M
