More Info on Twilight

The Story: Edward Cullen is excruciatingly handsome, seductive, and a vampire. The 107-year-old lives with his family as a perpetual teenager, attending high school (again!) with his adoptive siblings in gloomy Forks, Washington and pretty much keeping to himself. All that changes when Bella Swan arrives at Forks High School and catches Edward's attention. Bella's scent overpowers Edward's vampire sensibilities, awakening his repressed nature (the Cullen family has adopted an animals-only regimen), and drawing him into a tug-of-war between his lust for blood and ... just plain lust. The two would-be lovers forge a complicated romance, a potentially fatal attraction that constantly puts Bella's life at risk.

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Heads Up: For a movie about vampires, Twilight is surprisingly light on blood and violence. Most of the drama is a love story, and the action that there is is alluded to, rather than seen, such as a blurry encounter between vampire and deer (which may disturb animal lovers) and a meeting between an unfortunate human and three carnivorous bloodsuckers. The most violent episode occurs near the end. Those who've read the book, however, will be completely prepared for it since, with the exception of a fight scene, it plays almost identically to the print version. Except for a kiss, the relationship between Edward and Bella is primarily chaste, though the kiss takes place in Bella's bedroom and Bella appears to be only half-dressed.

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