Tuck Everlasting; If you haven't seen, then SPOILER ALERT

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I just saw this 2002 movie on TV this last weekend. It mainly stars Alexis Bledel and is set in the past. She does a great job in the movie and was a perfect casting for her role. Spoiler space: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Just in case that didn't work, I'll type this sentence. Alexis plays the young(15) daughter of a rich family in the early 1900's who is summering with them at their country home where they have a large house and land that has a woods. A family is secretly living in the woods where many years before when passing through they drank from a spring that made them immortal, they cannot be killed or injured or get sick and apparently will live forever. Alexis' character goes wondering in the woods when being defiant with her family and encounters the youngest son of the family who was 17 when he drank from the spring but has lived 104 years. A bad man who wants to control the spring and charge for it tracks them down and threatens to shoot Alexis' character who has not drunk from the spring the wife(Sissy Spacek) hits him from behind and kills him. Alexis' character's family shows up with the law and take the wife and father in for murder while the two sons escape. Alexis' character helps the two sons brake their parents out of jail and the young one asks her character to drink from the spring and tells her he will come back for her because he loves her and she says she loves him. The father had told Alexis' character that they really had no life but that they just were. Her character is shown at the spring dipping her hand over and over into it. After many years as is evidenced by the modern cars the "17" year old comes riding in on a motorcycle and goes looking for Alexis' character. It becomes evident that her character had decided to live her life when he finds her tombstone at the spring engraved with beloved wife and mother with the dates 1899 - 1999. Now what I wonder about is why did he wait 85 years to come back? It seems to me that a much shorter time would have been enough for no one to be left who would connect him to the jail break, etc. Not that it would have made any difference except that he might have arrived when she was still alive. It does pose an interesting question. It is better to live forever but at the risk of not really living at all as the father claimed, or is it better to really live a life that comes to an end.