Tuck Everlasting is an American television film based on Natalie Babbitt's 1975 book of the same title.
[2][3] After Frederick King Keller made the TV movie Skeleton Key, he met Natalie Babbitt at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
He liked her novel Tuck Everlasting and decided to produce and direct a film based on it.
[5] The film received generally positive reviews from St. Petersburg Times' Robert Alan Ross and Tampa Times' Steve Otto; the latter called the film "a finely crafted, intelligent and completely enjoyable picture.
"[7][8] Buffalo Evening News' Mary Ann Lauricella thought the cinematography was "a treat for the eye" that made up for the film's occasional slow pacing.