![]() 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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