Tuck Everlasting

A ten-year-old girl from an overprotective family who feels stifled by her sheltered life and longs for freedom and adventure of her own.

A mysterious stranger who has been tracking the Tucks for years, intending to exploit the spring's secret for his own profit.

The adventurous, seventeen-year-old-seeming younger Tuck son, who befriends Winnie and shows her the family's hidden world.

The protective matriarch of the Tuck family, who takes Winnie in and ultimately acts to keep the family's secret from spreading.

The weary Tuck family patriarch, who explains to Winnie why living forever without the natural cycle of life and death is more burden than gift.