Twilight (I) (2008)

A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.

Director:

Catherine Hardwicke

Writers:

Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay), Stephenie Meyer (novel)

Stars:

Kristen Stewart, Sarah Clarke, Billy Burke

24 wins & 9 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kristen Stewart	...	Bella Swan
Sarah Clarke	...	Renée
Matt Bushell	...	Phil
Billy Burke	...	Charlie Swan
Gil Birmingham	...	Billy Black
Taylor Lautner	...	Jacob Black
Gregory Tyree Boyce	...	Tyler
Justin Chon	...	Eric
Michael Welch	...	Mike Newton
Anna Kendrick	...	Jessica
Christian Serratos	...	Angela
Nikki Reed	...	Rosalie
Kellan Lutz	...	Emmet Cullen
Ashley Greene	...	Alice Cullen
Jackson Rathbone	...	Jasper

Storyline

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 Bella chooses 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...

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Plot Keywords:

vampire | love | blood | school | high school | 

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Taglines:

Nothing will be the same

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality

Details

Official Sites:

Greetings From Twilight Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 November 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Crepúsculo

Filming Locations:

218 Rim Drive, Washougal, Columbia River Gorge, Washington, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$37,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£2,508,422 (UK) (19 December 2008)

Gross:

$191,449,475 (USA) (27 March 2009)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Summit Entertainment, Temple Hill Entertainment, Maverick Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

122 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

While doing location scouting work in La Push, Catherine Hardwicke and the crew saw people surfing and suggested to screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg to add beach surfing scene. Rosenberg agreed and added it but the scene had to be scrapped because of budget constraints.

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Goofs

When Bella comes to school in the beginning of the movie, you can see a group of people playing hackisac. They are clearly pretending, and are all moving at the same time as if they were all getting the hackisac simultaneously.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Isabella Swan: [voiceover] I'd never given much thought to how I would die... But dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go.

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Connections

Referenced in Hung: Money on the Floor (2011)

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Soundtracks

"Decode"
Written by Hayley Williams, Josh Farro and Taylor York
Performed by Paramore
Paramore appears courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.

User Reviews

Pretty Good for What They Had to Work With

I have read the books, and the first thing I noticed was that the story wasn't about a plot line at all. It's about the characters and what's going on with them. Stephenie Meyer focuses on interaction, not on dialog, plot, or setting, which is fine. But it makes for a bad movie.

Surprisingly, Twilight wasn't that bad of a film. I expected it to be much worse. As I said, there's very little plot or dialog in the book, so it's hard to make a convincing film. They had to over act looks to try and communicate without many words. I could probably count on one hand the lines in the movie.

Other than the over acting, it wasn't bad. There were some very good moments and some very "eh" moments. But overall I would recommend it to Twilight fans. I probably won't ever want to see it again, but it's okay at midnight with some school friends who like it or something.