The lacrosse drama, directed by Michael F. Sears, is set for a limited release on Dec. 2.

Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene play adopted siblings in The Twilight Saga, but the duo pair off romantically for the lacrosse drama A Warrior’s Heart.

The film, produced by California Pictures and Family Productions, is slated for a Dec. 2 limited release and is directed by Michael F. Sears. Lutz stars as Lacrosse player Conor Sullivan, who struggles to come to terms with the death of his Marine father. Through a wilderness camp led by his dad’s former combat pal — played by Adam Beach — Conor learns to live and let go. Greene stars as his high school love interest, Brooklyn.

Gabrielle Anwar and Chord Overstreet also star.

The screenplay was written by Martin Dugard. Camelot Entertainment Group and Xenon Pictures own the rights.

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“Breaking Dawn” is bringing the “Twilight” film frenzy back this week, almost three years to the day that the first film in the series was released. Reviews of the new installment are mixed — but regardless, legions of fans have been camping out, tweeting passionately, and buying up movie tickets in advance of this weekend. And through it all, millions of non-Twi-hards are rolling their eyes and scratching their heads, wondering what all the fuss is about.

But there’s no reason that someone who hasn’t read the books (or even seen any of the other movies yet) should be apprehensive about heading to theaters this holiday season to see “Breaking Dawn.” Here, are a few reasons why (**SPOILER ALERT**):

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I’m always surprised when I like anything Twilight-related. I’ve written at length on how I find the subtext of the movies repulsive even though I can understand how the text can be enjoyed as shallow fantasy. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 even managed to wrap me up in that fantasy for the first half of the movie. I’m not immune to big weddings and romantic honeymoons, and the first half is filled with happiness and humor. Sadly, the second half of Breaking Dawn transforms into the mopey and idiotic drama I endured for the past three movies, but at least this time the series reached some glorious so-bad-it’s-good moments.

[Because this review is for fans of the series and they already know the plot, I'm going to go ahead with spoilers.]

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At midnight Thursday (Nov. 17), the next installment in the “Twilight” saga hits theaters. “Breaking Dawn – Part 1″ is kind of a watershed event for Twi-hards (Yes, aLL “Twilight” installments are watershed moments for Twi-hards): we know that Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) finally marry, sealing their love for all eternity, and Bella, against all odds, becomes pregnant with a vampire baby. Also, Taylor Lautner at some point inevitably takes his shirt off.

Anyhow, how are critics reacting to the latest, penultimate chapter in the “Twilight” saga? We’ve gathered a few early opinions:

“What we learn in this all-pain/no-pleasure episode is that marriage feels like a life sentence, weddings are miserable events, honeymoon sex is dangerous and leaves a bride covered in bruises, and pregnancy is a torment that leads to death in exchange for birth.” — Lisa Schwarzbaum for EW

“Years have passed for fans waiting to get to this moment, the inarguably gorgeous, wildly over the top nuptials of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, and here, Part 1 doesn’t disappoint.” — Alynda Wheat for People

“I lived a thousand lifetimes watching it, and died a thousand deaths. (The worst one was when Edward looked up “immortalicum” on Yahoo! search. On Yahoo! Search!)” — Dan Kois for The Village Voice.

“…the latest and best of the movies about a girl, her vampire and their impossible, ridiculously appealing — yes, I surrendered — love story.” — Manohla Dargis for the New York Times

“…a significant number of its 117 minutes do seem like hours, and whenever certain actors take the lead and set the pace of the dialogue, time itself begins to crawl backward and the breaking dawn begins to feel like yesterday’s breaking dawn, or last Tuesday’s.” — Michael Phillips for the Chicago Tribune

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Bella Swan has had the benefit of my doubt for the previous three installments of The Twilight Saga. But in Breaking Dawn — Part 1, this perpetually sad/sullen/wincing young woman — played as if every scene gives her cramps by the otherwise interesting Kristen Stewart — is a big drip. She’s maddeningly inarticulate. She’s distressingly passive. She’s a bad role model for girls. So, I say enough. Enough with Bella’s depressed, ragdoll posture and her eternal gloom. And a pox on Breaking Dawn, the movie, for its contented complicity with Stephenie Meyer’s ultimately awful message to millions of readers. What we learn in this all-pain/no-pleasure episode is that marriage feels like a life sentence, weddings are miserable events, honeymoon sex is dangerous and leaves a bride covered in bruises, and pregnancy is a torment that leads to death in exchange for birth. Also, during pregnancy, families fight like werewolves and vampires. Way to go, YA message. At least Bella’s wedding gown is pretty. Ooh! Cue the fashion blogs.

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There’s actually good news for everyone here. Twilight fans can rejoice that Breaking Dawn – Part 1, opening Friday, is a breathless, faithful portrayal of so much they’ve waited to see: Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella’s (Kristen Stewart) wedding, honeymoon and their darling, matricidal little bundle of joy.

Twilight haters can delight in the fact that it’s the beginning of the end.

As a fully recovered Twi-hard for whom the book Breaking Dawn was a breaking point, I get it. Years have passed for fans waiting to get to this moment, the inarguably gorgeous, wildly over the top nuptials of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, and here, Part 1 doesn’t disappoint.

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Were you not terribly enchanted by the very plain invitation to Edward and Bella’s wedding seen briefly in a “Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1″ trailer? You were not alone.

Letterpress artists Chantal Bennett and Joel Kimmel were not impressed either and decided to create their own, reports Leader Post. Chantal says of the invites from the trailer, “It’s just really, really boring. Very underwhelming – the kind of invitation you’d pick up at Michael’s or Staples and print it out yourself.”

“We figured, wouldn’t it be funny if we basically treated it more like a collectible art item for the fans, an actual wedding invitation for Bella and Edwards – something that the fans would like,” Bennett continues. “Naturally, all the Twilight merchandise they buy has one of the two [lovers'] faces on it.”

Chantal and Joel, a couple who run their own Papillon Press studio out of Sudbury, Ontario, admit they’ve never read the “Twilight” books. They’ve only seen the movies, calling them “amazingly angsty and hilarious.”

If you’d like to own your very own custom-designed Edward and Bella wedding invitation – well, they are no longer for sale! But perhaps Chantal and Joel will re-offer them at their Etsy store.

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LOS ANGELES – Stephenie Meyer has met her match when it comes to obsessive love.

Standing outside a rain-soaked tent village set up near Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater, where fans are camping before Monday night’s premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn— Part 1, Meyer says even she couldn’t muster this kind of devotion.

“There’s not much I would sleep out on the street for,” says Meyer, who wrote the bestselling books on which the films are based.

“These people are pretty hardcore. The fact that even one person camps out for this is unbelievable to me.”

Actually, more than 1,400 Twi-hard campers have been waiting patiently. By the time the movie’s young stars —Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner— walk down the red carpet, many fans will have waited for five days.

The pre-premiere vigil has become a tradition, and for the fourth film in the blockbuster franchise, the author felt compelled to leave her Arizona home early to finally check it out.

“I heard the stories about these kids, and it always sounds so amazing,” Meyer says after hobnobbing with her faithful while passing out 600 autographed copies of Breaking Dawn. “So I decided I had to get into town for this.”

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The highly anticipated “Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1″ opens next week (Nov. 18) and the plot — which involves a pregnant Bella (Kristen Stewart) — has us wondering: Are vampire babies even possible?

Since we were raised on a steady diet of “Interview with the Vampire,” “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” “True Blood,” “The Vampire Diaries” and “Twilight,” we mostly assumed vampires could only be born, so to speak, when a living human is bitten by a vampire who then allows that human to drink his or her immortality-giving blood. Pop culture lore would also have us believe that when one is transformed into a vampire, she remains forever the age she was at transformation. Hence Kirsten Dunst’s little girl vampire in “Interview.”

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