Twilight

"When you can live forever, what do you live for?"

2008 2h 2m EN

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6.3

MID

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48%

ROTTEN

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METACRITIC

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5.4

IMDB

★6.3TMDB · 14,719🥫48%Rotten Tomatoes●56Metacritic★5.4IMDB · 522,520

FantasyDramaRomance

Synopsis

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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.

“When you can live forever, what do you live for?”

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Cast

Kristen Stewart
Bella Swan
Robert Pattinson
Edward Cullen
Billy Burke
Charlie Swan
Peter Facinelli
Dr. Carlisle Cullen
Ashley Greene
Alice Cullen
Jackson Rathbone
Jasper
Nikki Reed
Rosalie
Kellan Lutz
Emmet Cullen

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writers: Melissa Rosenberg, Mark Vena, Philip Keller
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Grossed $394M — a 10.6× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 18 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, shot by Elliot Davis. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Nancy Richardson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and Billy Burke carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Catherine Hardwicke directs. Elliot Davis behind the camera. Carter Burwell scores. Nancy Richardson cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Grossed $394M — a 10.6× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
2Released 18 years ago.
3International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.
4Part of the "Twilight Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, shot by Elliot Davis. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Carter Burwell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Nancy Richardson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and Billy Burke carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "When you can live forever, what do you live for?".
10IMDB entry: tt1099212 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1114,719 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
12Classified under 27 themes, including "high school", "soulmates", "based on novel or book", "immortality".
13Released under 18 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Elliot Davis
Original score: Carter Burwell
Editing: Nancy Richardson
Costume design: Wendy Chuck
Makeup / hair: Laura Connolly
VFX supervisor: Bill George
Sound: Frank Gaeta
Stunt coordinator: Andy Cheng
Runtime: 122 min · 2h 2m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $37,000,000
Box office: $393,616,788
Return: 1064% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Twilight (2008)
Rotten Tomatoes: 48% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 56/100
IMDB rating: 5.4/10 · 522,520 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

34 wins & 16 nominations total

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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Catherine Hardwicke

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What people are saying

CinemaSerf2025-11-12
★ 5/10
Clearly someone at Summit must have looked at the popularity of the "Harry Potter" franchise and thought they needed to emulate it. What better way than to pair heart-throb Robert Pattinson with Kristen Stewart and adapt the teen vampire series of novels by Stephenie Meyer? Good idea in principle - the stories are better than average, the characterisations and storylines have screen potential in spades - especially when we have some werewolves and good old fashioned jealousy - but somewhere along the line something happened that turned the idea into a mushy, meandering story with two stars who didn't gel at all well on screen; a script that really does no justice to the books at all - and, but for a few scenes at the end with baddie vamp Cam Gigandet as "James", leaves the whole thing totally devoid of any sense of menace or jeopardy - it is all just flat and insipid. The CGI was clearly expensive, but has dated quickly and all told this is a poor effort from all concerned... Can't wait for the sequel; I'm struggling to sleep at night!
honeybee <32026-08-30
★ 10/10
I'm a big fan of comedy, but rarely has a movie ever made me laugh as much as this one. Genuinely don't think that cinema will ever be able to top this absolute masterpiece. This is what Louis Le Prince disappeared for. Tarantino, Scorsese, Kubrick, Spielberg -- they all quiver and shake at the mere mention of Twilight. Even if they were immortal vampires with an infinite amount of time, none of them could ever make a movie near as ground-breaking. A support group needs to be formed as this movie caused them to spiral into an identity crisis. (5/5, originally reviewed 11/18/24)