![]() Foster, in the bakery, fusses over the various pastries available in the bakery and says that none of them are satisfactory for the tea party. He challenges her to step out of the car and get her feet dirty. One approaches her and starts to make fun of her, sitting prim and proper in her fancy car (cars being rare in 1914). The boys happen to look in her direction, and recognize her. Foster goes into the bakery, Winnie, still in the automobile, lifts her veil and turns to watch some boys playing stickball in the streets. Winnie rides with her mother into town, who's come to pick up cakes from the bakery for a formal tea party. As Winnie continues piano practice under the watchful eye of her mother and grandmother, the narrator says that the need for, and feeling of, change was drawing ever closer and more strongly. The narrator explains that the formality of Winnie's life is stifling her and leaving her without time or chance to be the two things she needs to be most: a teenager, and a girl. Winnie is shown to be given a strict upbringing to be a proper lady of the time, which involves constant piano practice in the parlor, and having to dress properly, including a corset she finds very uncomfortable. The Fosters are a wealthy family the estate is gated and the mansion is well-furnished and appointed. We then see the Foster estate, and young Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) lays on the lawn, staring out into space and daydreaming, before her mother (Amy Irving) calls her inside. Miles proves much more emotionally restrained than Jesse the hug he gives his mother moves her to say, albeit affectionately, 'You're as cozy as barbed wire.' But more than anything, she's happy that they're back after ten years. Jesse has brought some gifts for Mae: a small bronze replica of the Eiffel Tower, bought in Paris, and a box of French chocolate. Mae's sons, Miles (Scott Bairstow) and Jesse make their way to her, and there is an emotional reunion. She window-shops along several stores, before sitting in her wagon, playing a wistful tune on her small music box. Mae rides her horse-drawn wagon through the dirt streets. ![]() After a brief image of a stately tree, with a T carved into the bark, the scenery changes to show Treegap as it was in 1914. As the scenery shifts to show a peaceful forest, the narrator goes on to say that the story begins on the first week of summer, 'not so very long ago,' when Treegap was a quaint village, and Mae Tuck (Sissy Spacek) went there every ten years to meet up with her sons. A narrator for the movie (Elisabeth Shue) recites a passage on the nature of time, and notes that for the Tuck family, it didn't exist. He takes off his helmet and looks at the estate wistfully. Jesse Tuck (Jonathan Jackson) rides his motorcycle through the town and makes his way to a gated house on the outskirts. Cars and pedestrian traffic make their way through the streets. Tuck Everlasting opens in the present day, in the town of Treegap. ![]()
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