Angus Tuck: Don't be afraid of death Winnie, be afraid of the unlived life.
Jesse Tuck: Winnie Foster...I will love you till the day I die!
Tuck Everlasting (2002)
2 quotes
Directed by: Jay Russell
Starring: Ben Kingsley, William Hurt, Sissy Spacek, Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the Tucks are having dinner with Winnie, after she was brought to their house, there is a shot of her as she says,"My father has plenty of money." On the far right of the screen you see Angus Tuck lick his fingers and make a downward motion with his hand. Then there is a shot of Angus and he says,"Your father will cut down the entire forest..." and you see him making the same motion of licking his fingers and so on again.
Question: Winnie (Alexis Bledel) runs away from her family and stays with Mae Tuck (Sissy Spacek) and the Tuck family. Winnie's family organise a search party to look for Winnie. Ben Kingsley (The Stranger/Man In Yellow Suit) also seeks Winnie and the Tucks, as they have secret information he wishes to acquire. Ben Kingsley finds Winnie and the Tucks. He threatens and intimidates them with a loaded revolver, even manhandling Winnie and holding the revolver barrel at Winnie's head. Sissy Spacek is standing behind Ben Kingsley. She hits him on the head with a rifle butt, killing him. At this point the search party converge on the Tucks' home. They see Sissy Spacek kill Ben Kingsley, so she is arrested for murder and sentenced to be hanged. Would any court find Sissy Spacek guilty of murder? She was obviously acting to defend her family and Winnie from an evil man with a loaded gun.
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Answer: It depends on the court. If the court believed killing the man was not necessary to save Winnie (ie. if a judge thought he was outnumbered and the men could and should have wrestled the gun away from him); then yes. A court could still find Mae Tuck guilty if they believe death was an excessive use of force in defending Winnie.