Disney's "Tuck Everlasting" has a PG rating, but its philosophical questions presented in children's story form can stimulate a college student's over-educated mind.

At the time most college students were in elementary school, one of the most popular children's books was Natalie Babbitt's fable-like tale of the same name.

Filmed in the lush Susquehanna State Park in Maryland, the growth and life of the wilderness permeates the film and provides stark contrast to the unchanging Tucks.

Alexis Bledel ("Gilmore Girls") plays Winnie Foster, the rich, restless young girl who matures to a woman over the course of the film. Winnie wanders with the viewer into the mysterious world of the Tucks, whose happy eccentricity make the people of her structured world uncomfortable.

Jonathan Jackson ("The Deep End of the Ocean") plays Jesse Tuck, who acts as Winnie's tour guide through his family's forest playground. Jackson embodies life at its happiest, when it is completely unaware of the world's worries.

His father, Angus Tuck (Academy Award-winner William Hurt) knows exactly what will happen if the world unravels his family's mystery. When Winnie is faced with the film's pivotal decision, it is the elder Tuck who tells her the issues she must weigh.

Sissy Spacek plays Mae Tuck, in an admirable move to bypass critical acclaim in favor of appeasing her children's movie tastes.

Sir Ben Kingsley acts with enough intelligent bravado to make him a fearful villain.

Away from her home's symbolic wrought-iron fences, Winnie gets swept up in the Tucks' world where time does not matter and fences do not exist.

"Tuck Everlasting" would fail if it claimed to be an epic period piece or a fairy tale romance. This touching film does fulfill its claim as the next Disney classic.
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