Robert Pattinson’s 2008 short film, “The Sum­mer House” dom­i­nated iTunes imme­di­ately fol­low­ing its recent release, top­ping movie sales charts in the U.S., Canada, Ire­land, and Ger­many after a mere four hours. The July 13th iTunes release marked the first occa­sion on which the film had been dis­trib­uted for mass con­sump­tion, hav­ing only been run on the fes­ti­val cir­cuit dur­ing the prior year.

The film is an adap­ta­tion of a coming-of-age story in which a teenage girl (Jane) sum­mer­ing at an aunt’s chateau in rural France dis­cov­ers the com­plex­ity of roman­tic relationships—both those of cer­tain fam­ily mem­bers, as well as her own. Rob plays the role of 18-year-old Richard, the love inter­est of Jane. Hav­ing bro­ken up with her to date another woman prior to her depar­ture for the sum­mer, once dumped by the other, he appears unex­pect­edly at Jane’s retreat to win her back. Through a series of benign advances (e.g., love let­ters) and other more force­ful attempts, he pushes Jane to come far­ther into herself.

Hav­ing been shot just prior to the release of “Twi­light”, “The Sum­mer House” will be regarded as one of Pattinson’s early works, though by the time he played in “The Sum­mer House”, Pat­tin­son had already acted in other major Hol­ly­wood films. The release comes just in time for fans crav­ing more of the inter­na­tional mega-star, whose media expo­sure has fallen off sharply since the release of “The Twi­light Saga: Eclipse”.

You can get The Sum­mer House on iTunes here.

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