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Twilight
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life.
2008 · Directed by Catherine Hardwicke · 122 min · Fantasy · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
When you can live forever, what do you live for?
Plot
Seventeen-year-old Bella Swan leaves Phoenix, Arizona, and moves to Forks, a small town located on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, to live with her father, Charlie, the town's police chief. Her mother, Renée, is remarried to Phil, a minor league baseball player.
Bella becomes reacquainted with Jacob Black, a Native American teenager who lives with his father, Billy, on the Quileute Indian Reservation near Forks. At school, she finds the mysterious and aloof Cullen siblings particularly intriguing. She is seated next to Edward Cullen in biology class, but he seems repulsed by her.
When Bella is nearly struck by a van in the school parking lot, Edward instantaneously covers a distance of over thirty feet to put himself between her and the van, stopping it with only his hand. He refuses to explain his actions to her, warning her against befriending him. Jacob tells Bella about a long-standing animosity between the Cullens and the Quileutes; the Cullens are not allowed on the reservation.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Melissa Rosenberg
- Cinematography: Elliot Davis
- Edited by: Nancy Richardson
- Music: Carter Burwell
- Produced by: Wyck Godfrey, Greg Mooradian, Mark Morgan
Cast
- Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan
- Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen
- Billy Burke as Charlie Swan
- Peter Facinelli as Dr. Carlisle Cullen
- Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen
- Jackson Rathbone as Jasper
- Nikki Reed as Rosalie
- Kellan Lutz as Emmet Cullen
- Elizabeth Reaser as Esme Cullen
- Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Summit Entertainment, Temple Hill Entertainment, Maverick Films, Imprint Entertainment
- Budget: $37,000,000
- Box office: $393,616,788
- Themes: high school, soulmates, based on novel or book, immortality, vampire, forbidden love, teen movie, trust, desire, washington state
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