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Monster (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
214 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Patty Jenkins

Written By:
Patty Jenkins

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

Synopsis:

Charlize Theron explodes in a magnetic performance as convicted killer Aileen Wuournos. Severely abused and unloved, Aileen immersed herself in the dangerous world of highway prostitution...until she met Selby Wall (Christina Ricci), a naive girl who was Aileen's last chance at a normal life. But ultimately all Aileen understood was violence and nobody imagined the nightmare that awaited the seven men standing in the way of her happiness. A critically-acclaimed film front writer/director Patty Jenkins.

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.

The true story of serial killer Aileen Wuernos who was convicted of luring men to their death and eventually executed in 2002. In 1989, she was working as a prostitute and finally makes a friend when she meets and begins a relationship with a young woman, Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, she tries to find legitimate work but with little education and limited social skills, she fails at every turn. She starts working as a hooker hitching rides along the local interstate highway and after robbing a few clients has an encounter with a vicious client whom she kills in self-defense. After that however she just takes to killing clients taking their money and car. Once arrested she claims self-defense but is eventually convicted.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 20 April, 2015.