Kristen Stewart Movies

The Thirteenth Year

This was a Disney Channel Original Movie that was released on May 15, 1999.  It is a mixture of the genres of fantasy and comedy.  The movie is about Cody Griffin, an adopted teenager that was left on his adoptive parents' boat by a stranger when he was a baby, and they decided to adopt him.  He becomes a good swimmer and attracts a girl named Sam.  A large swim meet is upcoming, and Cody finishes in second place to his main rival, Sean.  The following day is Cody's birthday, and he becomes friends with the class geek, Jess.  Following Cody's thirteenth birthday, he begins to feel odd symptoms, and when he wakes up the following morning, he turns off his alarm clock and electrifies it.  Soon Cody sees that scales are appearing on his fingers and palms and small fins are coming out of his arms.  Later the scales disappeared, and Jess runs some tests to find out what is wrong with him.  It turns out that Cody can talk to fish, swim really fast, climb walls, generate electricity, and when wet, the scales may appear.  They figure out that Cody is turning into a merman.  He wins his next race and sets a state record, but his fins are noticed by his swim rival.  Cody has to hide.  Jess learns that the child of a mermaid can only live on land until puberty, and that Cody will have to go back to sea.  Cody shows his girlfriend, Sam, what occurs to him when he gets wet.  Jess's father kidnaps Cody in order to catch his mermaid mother.  Jess frees the mermaid, but he nearly drowns because his leg gets in the net.  At the end, Cody uses his special powers in order to heal Jess.  Cody's friends appear to say goodbye, his legs turn into a tail, and he goes to the sea to return to his mother.  The mermaid says she will bring Cody back to his adoptive parents before school resumes.  Kristen Stewart plays the part of a non-speaking girl in this movie.

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas was filmed in 2000 and is the prequel to the 1994 film that is based on the animated television show The Flintstones.  The movie is set prior to the Flintstones and Rubbles being married and having kids.  The plot mainly includes Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble trying to find girlfriends.  It tells about the drama and comedy involved with Fred and Barney courting Wilma and Betty and the troubles and misunderstandings that ensue. 

The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects is a 2001 independent film about four families living in the suburb who have lives that become mixed up.  Paul Gold is in a coma and is being taken care of by his mother, Esther.  She has become distracted so that her husband Howard and daughter Julie are distanced from her.  Another family, the Train family, has Jim Train, who thinks his family doesn't need him.  Their neighbor, Helen Christianson is feeling less desirable and wants to feel younger, but her husband is happy with her just the way she is.  Helen's friend, Annette Jennings is in the middle of a messy divorce and has a hard time providing for her two daughters.  Sam (Kristen Stewart) is the oldest daughter, and the younger daughter suffers from mental disabilities, yet her ex-husband will not pay for her special classes.  Annette is also mourning her loss of Paul, with whom she had a relationship.  Randy is the neighborhood's landscaper, and he is dealing with the loss of his younger brother.  Annette's estranged husband comes by and wants to take Sam on holiday. Annette refuses and Sam does not wish to go.  Sam runs from her father when he tries to speak to her at a park, and she bumps into Randy who tells her that her mom wanted him to pick her up.  He takes her to a cabin in the woods.  He calls her Johnny and will not let her call home.  After three days, he realizes that the person he has is Sam, not his brother, Johnny.  In the end, all is resolved.  Sam returns home safely, Helen almost cheats on her husband, but doesn't, and we learn how the families are interconnected with a car crash as Paul was driving the car that killed Johnny, and Julie was in the other vehicle. 

Panic Room

This film is a 2002 thriller that stars Forest Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakum, and Kristen Stewart.  It is about how a mother and daughter must hide in a panic room when there is an invasion of armed robbers who want millions of dollars that are in the house. 

Meg Altman has recently become divorced from a pharmaceutical giant, and she has a daughter Sara (Kristen Stewart) who has diabetes.  They have purchased a four story townhouse.  In the house is a panic room, which is an isolated room that was used to protect the intruder with a four inch thick steel door as well as a security system, and it has a separate phone line.  The home is broken into by Burnham, an employee of the security company and Junior, the grandson of the prior owner.  The two intruders are after $3 million in bearer bonds which are inside a floor safe located in the panic room.  Raoul is a bus driver who has been recruited by Junior to help.  They learn that the Altmans have already moved in, but they decide to go ahead with the robbery anyway.  Meg hears the intruders, and she wakes up Sara and they go to the panic room. 

Several times the Altmans try to call for help.  Additionally Sara has a seizure due to hypoglycemia from her diabetes, and she cannot get to her emergency syringe in the refrigerator of her bedroom upstairs.  When they cannot get into the room, Junior admits that there is more money in the panic room than he had said.  Raoul and Burnham learns that the bonds are actually worth more like $22 million.  When he tries to leave the house, Junior is shot in the head by Raoul.  When Stephen Altman gets to the house, he is taken hostage by Burnham and Raoul.  He is severely beaten by Raoul, and then they use the unconscious Meg to exit the panic room.  Raoul ambushes her and then there is a struggle and Burnham and Raoul are trapped in the panic room with Sara, while Meg is outside of the panic room with Raoul's gun.  Meg did throw the glucose syringe in time and begs for the intruders to give Sara the injection, and Burnham later does. 

When the police arrive, Raoul is threatening to kill Sara who is trapped with him, and so Meg lies to the officers.  Burnham gets the bearer bonds.  When they attempt to leave using Sara as a hostage, Meg and Stephen attack them.  Burnham flees and Raoul is about to kill Meg using a sledgehammer, but Burnham turns back and kills Raoul.  Because of his delay, he is caught by the police. 

Cold Creek Manor

Cold Creek Manor is a psychological thriller film.  In this film, Cooper Tilson and his wife Leah decide to move away from New York City and moved into a decaying mansion that still holds many of the items owned by the previous owners.  They become friends with tavern owners Ellen and Ray Pinski and their daughter, Stephanie.  While Cooper is sifting through the family photos and documents left behind in the house, he makes a decision to make its history into a film. 

Previous owner, Dale Massie has recently been let out of prison and he shows up at the house expecting to help with the renovations to the house.  While he begins as a good worker, they begin to learn that there are secrets.  Cooper visits the father of Dale in a nursing home, and his comments make Cooper think that Dale killed his children and his wife.  He begins to search for their remains on the property.  His suspicions are correct as Cooper and Leah discover that there are three skeletons in Devil's Throat, a well that is in the woods.  He contacts Sheriff Ferguson, but does not know that he has been disabled and attacked by Dale, who also sets Leah's car on fire and punctures the tires on Cooper's truck to keep them from escaping.  They are trapped in the house and must save themselves. 

Catch That Kid

In this film, Madeline "Maddy" Phillips is played by Kristen Stewart, a twelve year old girl who loves climbing.  Her father loves climbing too, and he fell more than 100 feet during a climb.  Since they are afraid that she might hurt herself, they have ordered her not to climb.  Maddy's father is paralyzed from the neck down, and he needs an experimental operation that costs $250,000.  The insurance won't pay it and the family does not have the money. 

Maddie takes three go carts from her father and also convinces her two friends, Gus and Austin to assist her.  She convinces them through trickery to help her rob a bank.  She is successful and escapes on the go carts.  They escape to the hospital, but are caught.  The mom takes responsibility, claiming that it was an authorized test to check the bank's security.  The media sympathizes with the family and allows them to hold  a fundraiser the next day, which earned enough money for her father to have his surgery. 

Undertow

This movie is about Chris Munn, who is a restless and troubled teenager.  He has a younger brother named Tim and a dad, John.  The family lives in Georgia in a rural location.  The theme of the story is about family hatred as well as greed.  John's brother, Deel, visits with the Munn family, and when he visits, they feel uneasy.  It seems that Deel wants to reclaim gold coins from John.  He finds them hidden behind a family portrait of John, but John will not give them up.  There is a struggle, and Deel murders John.  He also attempts to kill Tim and Chris also, but they manage to escape and run away from home, and Chris takes the gold with him.  The boys are on the run from their uncle while he continues to chase after them until he is able to catch them.  Chris throws the gold coins in the water of a river, and Deel, enraged, attempts to drown Chris.  Deel gets a stab in the chest which kills him.  Chris wakes up in a hospital after being unconscious from the fight.  He is then reunited with his grandparents and his brother Tim. 

Speak

Melina Sordino, played by Kristen Stewart, is a freshman in high school who is called a "squealer" due to the fact that she called the police to a house party the summer before.  She had called 9-1-1 because she had been raped by a senior, Andy Evans, at the party, and she has been so traumatized by what happened that she cannot tell anyone what has happened.  She is shunned by her friends and peers and is socially rejected. 

Though her parents have noticed a change in her, they do not know the cause.  Her mother is overworked and too busy, and her father has little time to devote to his daughter.  In the movie, Melinda's teachers are also difficult.  Mr. Neck is a bully to Melinda, and her English teacher will not make eye contact.  Although Melinda is nice to a new student named Heather, Heather quickly abandons Melinda when there is an opportunity for social advancement.  She does have a positive experience with Dave Petrakis, her lab partner, who is not involved with a particular clique.  Each day, Melinda can only find peace when she is with her art teacher named Mr. Freeman.  He encourages Melinda, and she is able to spend her lunchtime in his classroom instead of the cafeteria.  Melinda finds an unused storage closet that she is able to think about the night of the party and deal with her demons inside of her. 

As the year goes on, Melinda is able to regain her confidence with some help from Dave.  She manages to stand up to Mr. Neck and Heather.  When her ex-best friend begins dating Andy, the boy responsible for Melinda's rape, Melinda worries that the same thing will happen to Rachel, so she tells Rachel the truth.  At first, Rachel does not believe her, but she does eventually confront Andy.  Andy is upset, breaks up with Rachel, and confronts Melinda, and threatens and beats her.  Melinda manages to fight back and subdues him by using aerosol and blinding him in his eyes.  The commotion gets attention from the girls' field hockey team.  On her way home from the hospital, she tells her mom what happened at the party.

Zathura

This is a fantasy film that is based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg.  Walter and Danny are two brothers who cannot get along.  They also have an older sister, Lisa, played by Kristen Stewart.  Their father goes to work, and they discover a board game in the basement, called Zathura, and when they play it, everything becomes real.  Their house is hurtled through space.  Throughout the story, the boys have to get over their issues with one another in order to survive their space adventure.  They are helped by an astronaut, who turns out to be an older version of Walter.  About halfway through the game, Walter sees that Danny has moved his piece forward illegally, and so he moves it back and berates Danny.  The game sees Walter's action as cheating, and so he is punished by being sucked into outer space, but fortunately the astronaut rescues him.  With Danny, Walter, and the astronaut is the sister, Lisa, who is not a player but is still able to be harmed by the game, such as when she was placed in a cryogenic freezer for five turns of the game.  She also has a crush on the astronaut, and is shocked and horrified to learn that he is an older version of her brother, Walter.

Most of the villains in the movie are the Zorgons, which are reptilians that want heat since they are cold-blooded.  They have burned their own planet and travel through space looking for more to burn.  They also keep four eyed goats on their ship, and we believe the flocks are for food.  There is also another character, a robot who appears as a wind up toy, but soon becomes life size.  It is supposed to defend Walter and Danny, but it misidentifies Walter as an alien, and Walter has to use his Reprogram card on the robot, so it decides to go after the Zorgons instead.  One Zorgon is able to survive the robot's attack and then sneaks up behind Danny and Walter, and just as they are about to be killed, it is crushed and killed with Danny's piano by none other than Lisa. 

The astronaut Walter is released when Walter draws a wishing card and wishes that the astronaut had his brother returned to him, and so the other Danny appears.  Then the future Walter says sorry to his brother and they merge with their other selves.  Danny completes the end of the game and the house is pulled into a roaring black hole, and he figures that this is Zathura.  The Zorgon fleet is pulled in, and so are Walter and Lisa.  Then they have returned to Earth, and the pieces have been returned as they were at the start of the game.  The brothers learn to be more cooperative with each other.  The kids remember what happened but all agree to never speak of it. 

Fierce People

This film is about Finn, a sixteen year old who feels trapped in his mother's apartment in the Lower East Side.  He wants to spend the summer in South America where he can study the "Fierce People" or Iskanani Indians with his father who is an anthropologist that he has never met.  Unfortunately, he is arrested attempting to help his drug dependent mother.  His mom, Liz, moves them into a guesthouse on the estate of an ex-client, who is an aristocratic billionaire.  Here they find a fierce tribe, the super rich.  Here Liz attempts to overcome her drug addiction and win back the love and the trust of her son.  He, on the other hand, falls in love with Osbourne's granddaughter, Maya, played by Kristen Stewart.  There is a shocking act of rape that makes the world of the aristocratic not so attractive. 

The Messengers

This is a horror film that is directed by the Pang Brothers, and it stars Kristen Stewart, William B. Davis, John Corbett, Dylan McDermott, and Penelope Ann Miller.  It is about darkness that invades a sunflower farm located in South Dakota.

At the beginning of the movie, a scared woman is with her son and tells him everything will be okay and stay strong.  She hears something and tells her son to hide under the bed.  The door opens and the figure throws the woman against the wall.  The son runs out of the room and to his sister, and the two scared children run down the stairs.  The boy hides under the table, but his sister is pushed over the rails of the stairs, and then she crawls over to the boy, telling him to hide.  She is dragged to the cellar and the boy runs and hides in a cabinet, but he is found and pulled out. 

Just five years later, a new family moves into the same home, with intentions to begin a sunflower farm.  The main character is Jess Solomon (Kristen Stewart), and she is upset that she has had to move away from her friends.  Before the movie, she had driven intoxicated with her little brother, Ben, a toddler, in the car with her.  She was in an accident and the boy was injured and hospitalized.  The father, Roy, brings his family to the farm, hoping it will make his family better.

There are some ominous events surrounding the house, such as crows attacking and an encounter with a ghost in the cellar. Jess and Ben have more experiences with the ghosts, and one of the encounters involves Jess getting bruises and cuts.  Jess finds out more facts about the prior owners of the home, the Rollins.  Apparently, the Rollins had lived in the home, but had left suddenly.  At a local store, she sees a picture of the family, and there is a man whom Roy Solomon had hired, John Burwell in it.  Actually, John Burwell is John Rollins, the head of the family and the man who had killed the prior owners of the home.  Jess is frightened and returns with Bobby to the home to warn her family. 

At home, Denise, Jess's mother is putting Ben to sleep and notices that a blood spot on the wall keeps coming back.  This is where Mary Rollins was thrown against the wall.  Denise sees the spirit of the mother coming through the wall.  Denise gets the suitcases and prepares to leave.  John is confused and thinks that Denise is his wife, Mary, trying to leave him, so he runs to the house to attack her.  Denise grabs Ben and runs to the cellar to hide.  Bobby and Jess arrive and are attacked by John with a pitchfork.  He knocks out Bobby and Jess runs into the cellar and bolts the door.  John is looking to get into the cellar, and Jess helps her mother barricade the door, block the windows, and break the light bulbs.  John gets in the cellar and looks for them. 

In the Land of Women

Carter Webb is a soft core porn writer living with his starlet girlfriend Sofia in Los Angeles.  She dumps him, and Carter then goes to his mother's home.  His mother is upset and tells him that her mother who is mentally unstable says she is dying.  Carter's mother leaves to take care of her mother, Phyllis, and Carter says he will take care of his grandmother in Michigan.  At the same time, Paige and Lucy, played by Kristen Stewart, are coming back from school.  Lucy's mom, Sarah, tells Lucy that she may have breast cancer and will be seeing a doctor. Carter arrives to take care of Phyllis and she slams the door on him.  She tells Carter that she has been starving herself.  Carter cleans up the home of his grandmother.  Sarah pushes her daughter Lucy on Carter, but it turns out that Sarah is the one after the attention of Carter.  They share a kiss later in the story and she shares with him that she is sick.  He also kisses Lucy, which angers Sarah.  At the end, Carter writes a love letter to Sarah, and Sarah gets her cancer treatments.  Carter's grandmother dies.  Carter and Sarah are able to end their relationship on good terms. 

Into the Wild

This is a drama film based on the non-fiction book by Jon Kraauer.  the film was directed by Sean Penn.  It stars Jena Malone, Marcia Gay Harden, Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, Catherine Keener, William Hurt, Brian Dierker, Hal Holbrook, and Zach Galifianakis. 

This film tells the true story of Christopher McCandless, who is a student athlete attending Emory University.  He destroys all of his identification documents, destroys his credit cards, and donates nearly all of his savings to Oxfam.  Then he sets out on a cross country drive to Alaska in his Datsun to test himself and experience wild nature.  He doesn't tell his parents what he is doing and does not communicate with them, leaving them worried and desperate.  During his trip, his vehicle is caught in a flash flood and he must ditch it to hitchhike after he has little cash left.  He comes across a hippie couple.  He also decides to work on a farm, but he has to leave after the farm owner is arrested for satellite piracy.  McCandless then paddles the Colorado River to Mexico.  His kayak is lost in the river and he comes back into America.  He arrives at a hippie commune.  Here he meets Tracy Tatro, played by Kristen Stewart, who is attracted to McCandless.  McCandless encounters a retired leather worker, Ron Franz.  He wants to adopt McCandless as his grandson, but McCandless is determined to make it to Alaska.  It is close to two years after McCandless has left his family and he sets up camp in a Fairbanks Transit bus that has been abandoned.  Initially he is pleased with his isolation, but as his supplies begin to run out, he learns that nature is uncaring and harsh.  He realizes that happiness can be achieved when you share.  He then decides to return to his family and friends.  Unfortunately, he learns that the stream that he originally crossed is now a violent torrent and he cannot go back.  He is now trapped.  He is no longer in control of his fate and needs help.  When his supplies are gone, he must gather and eat roots and plants.  While a book he has helps him with determining the plants that are edible and inedible, he gets them confused and is poisoned.  He slowly starves to death.  Even in his final hours, he documents his self-realization.  He thinks of his family and friends one final time.  His body was found two weeks following his death by moose hunters.  He was found in his sleeping bag, weighing approximately 67 pounds at his death. 

Twilight

Twilight is a romantic fantasy film that was based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer.  It is about a relationship between Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward Cullen.  Bella is seventeen years old when the story begins, and she has moved to Forks, Washington, to live with her father.  There she meets many new students at her new school, but she is especially interested in the mysterious Edward Cullen.  He appears to be disgusted by her, but the truth is that he is a vampire.  A few days later, Bella is almost hit by a van in the parking lot of the school, but Edward somehow is able to stop the vehicle with his hand from some distance away.  He will not explain what happened to Bella and warns her to stay away from him.  Bella learns after a little while that Edward is a vampire that consumes animal blood.  They fall in love, and Bella becomes close to his vampire family of Esme, Carlisle, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie.  There are three evil vampires in the story, Victoria, James, and Laurent.  James is interested in why Edward is protective of a human and he wants to hunt Bella for sport.  Edward and the Cullen family protect her; however, James ends up finding where Bella is hiding and lures her to an empty dance studio and bites her wrist.  Edward and the other Cullens, however, are able to reach Bella in time.  Edward sucks the venom from her arm to keep her from becoming a vampire.  She is injured and is taken to the hospital.  Bella and Edward also attend the prom.  Bella desires to become a vampire, but Edward will not allow it.  At the end of the film, Victoria watches Edward and Bella, plotting her revenge for the death of James. 

New Moon

New Moon is the based on the second novel of the Stephenie Meyer Twilight series of books.  The story begins with Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) waking up from a dream and viewing herself as an old woman.  This upsets her, as she does not want to appear older than her permanently 17 year old vampire boyfriend, Edward.  When Edward's family throws her a birthday party, she is unwrapping a gift and gets a paper cut.  The smell of her blood sends Edward's brother, Jasper into a frenzy and he tries to kill her.  Edward decides that it will be safer for Bella if he ends their relationship, so the Cullens move away from Forks, Washington. 

When Edward leaves, Bella is left depressed and heartbroken.  She ends up finding comfort with Jacob Black, a member of the Quielete tribe.  Bella learns that Jacob and the rest of his tribe are actually werewolves.  She also learns that she can see visions of Edward and hear his voice when she puts herself into danger with thrill-seeking activities.  Jacob's tribe helps protect Bella from Victoria, who wants to kill Bella in revenge for James's death.  There is a series of miscommunications that lead Edward to the conclusion that Bella has killed herself while cliff-diving.  He is overwhelmed by the news and goes to Italy in order to provoke the Volturi, which is a powerful coven of vampires who are able to kill him.  Alice Cullen and Bella rush to Italy in order to save Edward, but the Volturi decide that Bella is a danger to them as a human who knows of their existence.  Therefore she must either be killed or turned into a vampire.  She agrees to be transformed into a vampire.  Edward admits to her that he only left to protect her and that he loves her.  She forgives him and the Cullens vote for her to be transformed into a vampire.  Edward tells Bella that she has a choice.  She can either be changed by Alice after they graduate, or if she will marry him, he will change her himself into a vampire.