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Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

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Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson
Nov 18, 2011
PG-13, 1 hr. 57 min.

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Movie Info

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Sarah Clarke, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone
Director: Bill Condon
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hr. 57 min.
Genre: Romance, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Theater Release: Nov 18, 2011
DVD Release: Feb 11, 2012
Synopsis: In The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson), plus those they love, must deal with the chain of consequences brought on by a marriage, honeymoon, and the tumultuous birth of a child...which brings an unforeseen and shocking development for Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). -- (C) Summit Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Bruce Diones, New Yorker
    This penultimate "Twilight" film is the best in the series so far. It's languorous, romantic, moody, and, in the end, horrifying.
  • David Edelstein, New York Magazine
    The last twenty minutes of Breaking Dawn are so harrowing that it's possible to forget that most of the acting is soap-operatic (the guy who plays Carlisle is aging to look like Liberace) and the dialogue from hunger.
  • Sara Stewart, New York Post
    It all goes wrong just when it should go right.
  • Peter Howell, Toronto Star
    Melodrama reigns in this supernatural soap opera, even though author Stephanie Meyer's tale takes a decided turn toward the weird and violent.
  • Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com
    This is a well-made film, though sometimes unintentionally funny.
  • Tom Long, Detroit News
    There are a few reasons The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1 is probably the best of the Twilight films.
  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
    For those of us who are not Twilight fanatics, or even fans, or could not care somewhat less than less, the arrival of Part 1 is not cause for trumpets blaring. But I would imagine that even those who line up for this film will be somewhat let down.
  • Dana Stevens, Slate
    By any normal standard, this is a terrible movie, with stilted dialogue and leaden pacing -- every 15 minutes or so, the action stops for a musical montage involving slow-motion handsomeness. But the Twilight saga stopped being normal a long time ago.
  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews
    Here's hoping Breaking Dawn Part Two gives us more of what Part One provided in the final 30 minutes than what it forced viewers to endure to get there.
  • Laremy Legel, Film.com
    Some nice moments, but not enough of them.
  • Get more reviews for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 at RottenTomatoes.com
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