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THE MESSENGERS Release Date: February 2nd, 2007 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Kristen's Role: Jess Solomon Also Starring: Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller Directed by: Oxide Pang, Danny Pang Produced by: Joe Drake, Nathan Kahane, William Sherak Screenplay by: Mark Wheaton Story by: Todd Farmer Genres: Science Fiction/Fantasy and Suspense/Horror Running Time: 1 hr. 24 min. Distributors: Sony Pictures Releasing U.S. Box Office: $35,374,833

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Nothing is what it seems on the Solomon farm.

What goes bump in the night happens by day. Tranquility is the haven for terror. And the harbingers of doom are gravely underestimated.

In THE MESSENGERS, a thriller starring KRISTEN STEWART as Jess, DYLAN McDERMOTT and PENELOPE ANN MILLER as Jess' parents Roy and Denise Solomon and JOHN CORBETT as field hand John Burwell, the Solomon family has left the fast paced life of Chicago for the secluded world of a North Dakota farm. Amidst the tranquil sway of the farm's field of sunflowers, Jess, 16, soon realizes how terrifying seclusion can be when she and her brother Ben, 3, begin seeing ominous apparitions invisible to everyone else. When those specters become violent, Jess' sanity is questioned - a double jeopardy for the tormented teen. Her troublesome past comes face to face with the past of those who once lived in the house, a perilous confrontation that leaves her believability in question with those she desperately tries to warn before it is too late.

Kristen plays Jess, the rebellious daughter whose bad behavior in the city prompted the family to move to their new home. Because of her past brushes with getting into trouble, her parents are very reluctant to believe her tales of their house being haunted. She must survive the ghostly attacks and convince her parents that something sinister is really happening.

"It was really one of the most emotionally and physically strenuous movies I’ve ever been on and I wasn’t expecting that at all. I thought it was going to be sort of a break like, you know, sort of a one dimensional horror movie. But it turned out to really not be like that for me."

"One thing that was really awesome was that a lot of the things were practical but I didn’t have to make believe. Most of what I’m responding to was really there for me – even the ghosts – we had someone standing there. Even though it didn’t look like it looks in the movie, I didn’t have to turn around and scream at nothing. I sort of liked doing that. At first you feel totally absurd and ridiculous but you get into it and you start to feel less stupid."

"I like when all of a sudden you’re watching a movie and it slows down and you’re like, ‘oh my god, something’s definitely going to happen’ and you know it, but even when it does, it still scares you just as much. I like all types of horror movies. I definitely don’t exclude slasher movies. I love them also. There’s something nice and deliberate about this movie. The Pang brothers really take their time. There’s something about the pacing that’s just really unnerving to me, that’s kind of weird."