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Today, moviegoers in New York and Los Angeles will finally get to see Kristen Stewart's latest, "Welcome to the Rileys." K-Stew is already receiving raves for the risky project, in which she plays a runaway stripper named Mallory. The movie, which also stars James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo, is quite the departure from the "Twilight Saga," which made Kristen a household name. It seems she can hold her own with two acting heavyweights, but it isn't the first time Kristen has been impressive in other movies. While we here (and all of you guys) will always love the 20-year-old actress best for playing Bella Swan, we were curious as to which non-"Twilight" Kristen Stewart role you liked best.

From her previous forays into indies (as terminally ill teen Georgia in "The Cake Eaters") to nostalgic comedy (playing the cool but conflicted love interest Em in "Adventureland") to rocker biopics (as the iconic rocker Joan Jett in "The Runaways") to romantic dramas (as the neighbor of Adam Brody in "In The Land of Women"...hey, it's a tough job...) and sweeping epics (a hippie who falls for fellow drifter Chris McCandless in the big-screen adaptation of "Into The Wild"), there's plenty to love on Kristen's resume so far. Vote in our poll and let us know which of K-Stew's other roles you like best!

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Tags Adam Brody, Adventureland, In The Land Of Women, Into The Wild, James Gandolfini, Joan Jett, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, The Cake Eaters, The Runaways, Twilight, Welcome to the Rileys

Things aren't looking too pretty for Kristen Stewart in "Welcome to the Rileys". But, with the subject matter at hand (she plays a runaway teenage stripper taken in by a grieving family, after all) it would be hard to imagine otherwise. We've got some new stills from the film (as well as the poster) to share with you, and it looks as though KStew isn't just baring her soul in this flick.

Kristen has shred any hint of glamor to capture the down-on-her-luck character Mallory. In one pic we see a scared and bruised Kristen standing in a dressing room (alongside co-star Melissa Leo) in nothing but her bra and jeans. It's not the first time Kristen has shown some skin for a role (she did go for a scantily-clad dip with Jesse Eisenberg in "Adventureland"), but it certainly looks like she's gotten into this gritty role.

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Tags Adventureland, James Gandolfini, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, Movie News, Welcome to the Rileys

With autumn quickly approaching, we're gearing up for warm wool sweaters, copious cups of cocoa and, perhaps most importantly, some seriously great film releases. All week long we'll be rolling out exclusive clips, photos and interviews as part of our Fall Movie Preview Week 2010, so stay tuned!

Today, we got our hands on three pics from a movie we've been talking about forever (well, maybe more like nine months or so): Kristen Stewart's gritty film "Welcome to the Rileys." Kristen plays runaway teen prostitute Mallory, who's taken in by James Gandolfini to help him ease the pain of his own daughter's death.

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Tags Fall Movie Preview Week 2010, James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Welcome to the Rileys

It's likely few actresses will be quite so busy at this month's Sundance Film Festival as "New Moon" star Kristen Stewart. The 19-year-old is set to debut not one but two films in Park City, Utah. The first is the Joan Jett biopic, "The Runaways" for which Kristen famously chopped her locks into a raven-colored rocker-girl mullet. The second and perhaps less-hyped, "Welcome to the Rileys" finds Kristen in another tough girl role, this time trading in her microphone for a stripper pole as troubled girl Mallory.

The film also stars James Gandolfini as grieving father Doug Riley, who pays the 16-year-old stripper to stay in her Baton Rouge, Louisiana apartment (with a no-hanky-panky clause) while he sorts his life out and quickly begins seeing Mallory as a surrogate daughter. Last month we released five stills from the flick, and today we have a few more for you.

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Tags James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Photo, Sundance 2010, Welcome to the Rileys

While Robert Pattinson has moved on to Emile de Ravin in his newest film "Remember Me," Kristen Stewart has found herself a new Edward Cullen in the rotund form of James Gandolfini. The Sundance submission "Welcome to the Rileys" stars KStew in her most un-Bella role yet. That's right, the doe-eyed girl who falls in love with the supernatural has turned those eyes into the seductive, knowing ones of a stripper.

A whole slew of photos emerged yesterday as Sundance announced their 2010 line-up earlier in the week. Though four of the five photos center around Kristen's character Mallory (probably because she's the biggest draw to the project considering "New Moon's" record-breaking success), though arguably Gandolfini's character Doug Riley is the film's main character.

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Tags James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, Photo, Welcome to the Rileys