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Monster (2003)

18A  -  Biography | Crime | Drama  -  30 January 2004 (USA)
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Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.

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Won 1 Oscar. Another 25 wins & 16 nominations. See more awards »

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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. Written by Sujit R. Varma

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The first female serial killer of America See more »

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Biography | Crime | Drama

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$4,500,000 (estimated)

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$661,783 (Italy) (30 April 2004)

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£2,435,557 (UK) (11 June 2004)
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Aileen Wuornos did use a storage facility, like the one seen after she leaves Selby's home the morning after they first met. Although it's shown only before the killing spree in the movie, she actually kept some of her victims' belongings in that storage, while selling others to pawn shops, which eventually led to her thumbprint identification and subsequent arrest. See more »

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As Aileen Wuornos and the first john are driving into the woods, you can see in the back window that the car is just bouncing up and down. In the next shot, trees are passing, which means they are moving. See more »

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[first lines]
[narrating]
Aileen: I always wanted to be in the movies.
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Aileen: When I was little I thought for sure that one day, I could be a big, big star. Or maybe just beautiful... beautiful and rich, like the women on TV. Yeah, I had a lot of dreams. And I guess you can call me a real romantic, because I truly believe that one day, they'll come true. So I dreamed about it for hours. As the years went by, I learnt to stop sharing them with people. They said I was dreaming. But back then, I believed it...
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Referenced in Saturday Night Live: Ben Affleck/Nelly (2004) See more »

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Space Age Love Song
(1982)
Written by Frank Maudsley (as Francis Maudsley), Paul Reynolds, Ali Score (as Alistair James Score),
Michael Score
Performed by A Flock of Seagulls
Courtesy of Jive Records
Under License from BMG Film & TV Music Division
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Black day for Hollywood if she doesn't win the Oscar
17 February 2004 | by (los angeles, california) – See all my reviews

Charlize Theron's performance in this movie was so incredible I felt compelled to shout about it to every single person I know. I was so blown away by her that her performance actually reignited my own passion for acting and made me realize why I'm trying so hard to break into this business and to do it well. I never thought that Charlize Theron (of whom I was never a big fan) of all people could make me remember what movie-making is all about. With one role, she's converted me into a life-long fan. If Oscar means anything anymore, she deserves that award, hands-down. The movie itself is one of the most gripping and emotional stories I've ever seen in a film, and, true or not, its right up there with the other great indies depicting the sorry lives of Middle-Americans, such as Boys Don't Cry and, ironically, Monster's Ball. I wept straight through the last twenty minutes of this movie, continued weeping intermittently throughout the day, and wept some more about it during my preparation for acting class the following day. Before I saw the film, I saw Charlize on The Daily Show, talking to John Stewart about how Aileen Wuornos' story (and I'm paraphrasing) forces one to re-examine how we might label someone "evil" for doing horrible things. I thought, that's just a bunch of liberal bulls**t. Then I saw the movie. Like I said, we can't know how much of the movie is one-hundred percent factual, but it's almost scary how little that mattered to me after I left the theater. This film moved me so much that I actually decided then and there that I would, that I would have to, think a little harder the next time I thought of someone as "evil". If the goal of the filmmakers was to just try to get people to think about the fairness of the death penalty, I believe they succeeded.


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