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Monster

Rating:R (for strong violence and sexual content, and for pervasive language)
Genre:Drama
Release Date:December 24, 2003
Running time:109 minutes
Cast:Charlize Theron, Bruce Dern, Christina Ricci, Scott Wilson, Lee Tergesen
Director:Patty Jenkins
Producer:Mark Damon, Donald Kushner, Sammy Lee
Writer:Patty Jenkins
Distributor:Newmarket Film Group

Description: 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 any of her clientele who attempted to rape her. 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.

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