Monster

Year 2003 User Rating 7.4

Directors Patty Jenkins

Release date 30 January 2004 (USA)

Genre Biography | Crime | Drama | Romance

Classification Rated R for strong violence and sexual content, and for pervasive language.

Tagline Based on a true story

Plot Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.

Plot summary 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 clientele in order to get money without using sex. This turned the tables on a rather common phenomena of female highway prostitutes being the victims of serial killers--instead Wuornos, herself, carried out the deeds of a cold-blooded killer.

Runtime 109 min Language English

Country USA | Germany

Company Media 8 Entertainment

Cast Charlize Theron as Aileen | Christina Ricci as Selby | Bruce Dern as Thomas | Lee Tergesen as Vincent Corey | Annie Corley as Donna | Pruitt Taylor Vince as Gene / Stuttering "John" | Marco St. John as Evan / Undercover "John" | Marc Macaulay as Will / Daddy "John" | Scott Wilson as Horton / Last "John" | Rus Blackwell as Cop | Tim Ware as Chuck | Stephan Jones as Lawyer | Brett Rice as Charles | Kaitlin Riley as Teenage Aileen | Cree Ivey as 7-Year-Old Aileen |

Sound track Space Age Love Song

Awards Won Oscar. Another 16 wins 13 nominations