Monster
- Release Date
- December 24, 2003
- Director
- Patty Jenkins
- Cast
- Charlize Theron , Christina Ricci , Bruce Dern , Lee Tergesen , Annie Corley , Pruitt Taylor Vince
- Runtime
- 111
- Main Genre
- Biography
- Writers
- Patty Jenkins
- Tagline
- BASED ON A TRUE STORY
- Website
- http://www.monsterfilm.com/
Summary
In a revelatory performance, Charlize Theron stars in the shocking and moving true-life story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute executed last year in Florida after being convicted of murdering six men. While Wuornos confessed to the six murders, including a policeman, she claimed to have killed only in self-defense, resisting violent assaults while working as a prostitute. Bravely burrowing beneath the tabloid headlines about America
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