Kristen Stewart touched down in Park City, Utah last night, ready to promote not just one, but two films at the Sundance Film Festival. Stewart's costar in The Runaways, Dakota Fanning, also arrived in Sundance to promote the movie. Kristen, however, was also there to promote Welcome to the Rileys, in which she plays an underaged prostitute.
Says the Sundance website of Rileys: Trauma transforms us. Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. She isolates herself in their immaculate suburban home. He philanders with a local waitress, anesthetizing pain with easy passion. When he loses his mistress to cancer, Doug, beset by further heartache, escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian. Meanwhile, Lois summons all of her remaining force to overcome agoraphobia and venture south to reclaim her marriage.
Exacting performances from three consummate actors (James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo, and Kristen Stewart) infuse this emotionally raw, gently humorous drama with penetrating humanity. Director Jake Scott’s uncompromising film refuses to flinch from difficult moments or tie neat bows around its characters. Instead, it reveals how taking risks and leaving our comfort zone can become a profound path to healing the human heart.
Check out Kristen with her Welcome to the Rileys costars in the slideshow below, which also contains a few photos of Kristen and Dakota trekking through the Park City snow, and posing with their Runaways director, Floria Sigismondi. The Runways doesn't premiere until tomorrow, so that's when the girls will go out. Are you looking forward to seeing Kristen's new movies?
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