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About the Film
Based on the New York Times best seller by Stephenie Meyer
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and sent Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn't expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance — unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. That's right — VAMPIRE. But he doesn't have fangs — that's just in the movies. And he doesn't drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice.
To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for — a soul mate.
But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy.
Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love. But what will they do when Laurent and James, the Cullens' mortal vampire enemies, come to town, looking for Bella?
The movie is set to be released in the US and Canada on NOVEMBER 21, 2008
Cast
Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan
Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen
Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen
Jackson Rathbone as Jasper Hale
Kellan Lutz as Emmett Cullen
Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale
Peter Facinelli as Carlisle Cullen
Elizabeth Reaser as Esme Cullen
Cam Gigandet as James
Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria
Edi Gathegi as Laurent
Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black
Billy Burke as Charlie Swan
Gil Birmingham as Billy Black
Michael Welch as Mike Newton
Anna Kendrick as Jessica Stanley
Justin Chon as Eric Yorkie
Christian Serratos as Angela Weber
Gregory Tyree Boyce as Tyler Crowley
Solomon Trimble as Sam Uley
Sarah Clarke as Renee Dwyer
Matt Bushell as Phil Dwyer
Production
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
Screenplay written by Melissa Rosenberg