The Twilight Saga: New Moon

"Forbidden to remember. Terrified to forget."

2009 2h 11m EN

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6.0

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★6.0TMDB · 9,931

AdventureFantasyDramaRomance

Synopsis

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Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf. But before she knows it, she's thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and her desire to be with Edward at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.

“Forbidden to remember. Terrified to forget.”

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Cast

Kristen Stewart
Bella Swan
Robert Pattinson
Edward Cullen
Taylor Lautner
Jacob Black
Dakota Fanning
Jane
Michael Sheen
Aro
Ashley Greene
Alice Cullen
Rachelle Lefevre
Victoria
Billy Burke
Charlie Swan

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Chris Weitz
Writers: Melissa Rosenberg, Gary Damian Thomas, Len Morganti
Languages: English, Italian
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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MONEY

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Grossed $710M — a 14.2× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 17 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Italian.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Twilight Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

CAST

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243+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Chris Weitz, shot by Javier Aguirresarobe. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Alexandre Desplat. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Chris Weitz directs. Javier Aguirresarobe behind the camera. Alexandre Desplat scores. Peter Lambert cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Italian.

Trivia

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1Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Grossed $710M — a 14.2× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
3Released 17 years ago.
4Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Italian.
5Part of the "Twilight Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6243+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Chris Weitz, shot by Javier Aguirresarobe. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Alexandre Desplat. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Peter Lambert shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Forbidden to remember. Terrified to forget.".
12IMDB entry: tt1259571 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
13Classified under 12 themes, including "moon", "based on novel or book", "vampire", "sequel".
14Released under 28 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Javier Aguirresarobe
Original score: Alexandre Desplat
Editing: Peter Lambert
Production design: David Brisbin
Costume design: Tish Monaghan
Makeup / hair: Tanya Hudson
VFX supervisor: Matt Jacobs
Sound: Chris Carpenter
Stunt coordinator: J.J. Makaro
Runtime: 131 min · 2h 11m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $50,000,000
Box office: $709,827,462
Return: 1420% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

Awards

World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year
MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance
MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance
MTV Movie Award for Best Movie
MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss
Teen Choice Award for Best Villain

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Part of

Twilight Collection

The Twilight movies are a romantic fantasy vampire series based on the series of novels by Stephenie Meyer.

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CinemaSerf2025-11-12
★ 5/10
I think that this is sightly better than the turgid first instalment. "Bella" (Kristen Stewart) is now fairly firmly attached to "Edward Cullen" (Robert Pattinson) and that puts her life in danger. When they realise that, and that folks are starting to suspect that the dapper doctor “Carlisle” (Peter Facinelli) is really “Dorian Gray”, he and his family abruptly move away leaving her bereft and sad. After some months of moping and bad dreams, “Bella” starts to take solace rebuilding a motor bike with the washboard-chested “Jacob" (Taylor Lautner) who turns out to have some secrets of his own that give "doggy style" a whole new meaning! This has marginally more pace than the first film: the absence of the ponderous and repetitious falling in love scenes and of the glisteningly moody Pattison for much of it helps liven the thing up a bit but the performances and screenplay are all still pretty weak. The frequently shirtless Lautner is very easy on the eye but as wooden as they come and Michael Sheen is positively hammy as Voltari supremo "Aro" who has a menacing smile straight out of "Rocky Horror". It's far too long, it resorts to the soundtrack to replace meaningful (?) dialogue a few times too often and some judicious pruning in the middle might have made this a bit better - but the series appears to be, very gradually, picking up steam. I still think I’d have enjoyed “Punch Face” better, though.
honeybee <32026-08-30
★ 7/10
A bunch of lore was dropped, but other than that this movie was kind of pointless. An extra half star cause it gave us Rosyln and Alice content. (3.5/5, originally reviewed 1/3/25)