In the book, Winnie is pre-adolescent, yet with Bledel in the role, she must be around 16 years old in the film. The casting of The Gilmore Girls' Alexis Bledel as Winnie points to one major change from the book. She befriends the Tucks and later must help them when their secret is jeopardized by The Man in the Yellow Suit. While walking in the woods, she comes across the Tuck family and their secret. Tuck Everlasting is centered on Winnie Foster, a girl at the turn of the century who longs to escape her overbearing parents and humdrum life. In this case he won't have a cute dog to fall back on, so the concern still exists that the film might slip through the cracks by seeming too mature for the younger audience, but not mature enough for the older audience. Jay Russell seems like an appropriate director to handle these challenges however, seeing as he has previously made My Dog Skip, which dealt with some difficult ideas to present in a family film as well. Additionally, while it is a children's - or perhaps, more accurately, a young adult - book, it is also an examination of some fairly heady themes. The book presents a major challenge, because not only is Tuck Everlasting beloved, but it is also largely driven by ideas rather than by plot. This is the second attempt to adapt Natalie Babbitt's classic children's book into a movie - the first was a made for television version, but now Disney gives the book the major studio feature film treatment.
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