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Kristen Stewart on The Cake Eaters

By , About.com GuideMarch 10, 2009

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Kristen Stewart (Twilight's Bella) will shortly be seen on the big screen in two independent films: The Cake Eaters and Adventureland. The Cake Eaters marks the feature film directorial debut of actress Mary Stuart Masterson and is set in a small New York town and centers around two families. One family, the Kimbroughs, is dealing with the death of its matriarch to cancer. The other family, the Kaminskis, is also having to deal with an illness. Their teenage daughter, Georgia (played by Stewart), suffers from Friedrich's Ataxia, a disease which - according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - causes "progressive damage to the nervous system resulting in symptoms ranging from gait disturbance and speech problems to heart disease." Read More...

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