Monster
2003 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
A dark tale based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America's first female serial killers. Wuornos had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan. She became a prostitute by the age of thirteen, the same year she became pregnant. She eventually moved to Florida where she began earning a living as a highway prostitute--servicing the desires of semi-truck drivers. The tale focuses on the nine month period between 1989 and 1990, during which Wuornos had a lesbian relationship with a woman named Selby. And during that very same time, she also began murdering her clientèle in order to get money without using sex. This turned the tables on a rather common phenomenon of female highway prostitutes being the victims of serial killers--instead Wuornos, herself, carried out the deeds of a cold-blooded killer.
Direction Patty Jenkins
Cast Charlize Theron · Christina Ricci · Bruce Dern · Scott Wilson · Pruitt Taylor Vince · Lee Tergesen · Annie Corley · Marc Macaulay · Marco St. John · Kaitlin Riley · Tim Ware · Cree Ivey · Rus Blackwell · Catherine Mangan · Brett Rice · Glenn R. Wilder · Stephan Jones · Kane Hodder · Christian Stokes · Jim R. Coleman · Bubba Baker · Jesse Stern
Soundtrack BT
Screenplay Patty Jenkins
Cinematography Steven Bernstein
Original title Monster
6.6
29K votes (FilmAffinity)
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