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Monster
Monster

Monster

2003 109 min ★ 7.2 Crime, Drama

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, Aileen's limited education lands her back on the corner. She's raped by a trick, who she kills. A string of murder and robbery follows that ultimately leads Aileen to becoming America's first female serial killer.

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Cast

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron

Aileen Wuornos

Christina Ricci

Christina Ricci

Selby Wall

Bruce Dern

Bruce Dern

Thomas

Lee Tergesen

Lee Tergesen

Vincent Corey

Annie Corley

Annie Corley

Donna

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Gene / Stuttering "John"

Marco St. John

Marco St. John

Evan / Undercover "John"

Marc Macaulay

Marc Macaulay

Will / Daddy "John"

Scott Wilson

Scott Wilson

Horton / Last "John"

Rus Blackwell

Rus Blackwell

Cop

Details

Director

Patty Jenkins

Tagline

"Based on a true story."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$8,000,000

Revenue

$58,469,210

Production

Media 8 Entertainment, DEJ Productions, K/W Productions, Denver & Delilah Productions, VIP Medienfonds 2, MDP Worldwide, Taurus Film

Reviews

J

John Chard

March 29, 2020

★ 7/10

We can be as different as we wanna be, but you can't kill people! Monster is the bleak story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute and one of America's most notorious female serial killers. Based around facts of her life and death, the film primarily focuses on the last year of her freedom. Where after entering into a strange lesbian relationship with Selby Wall, Wuornos, fed up of being a abused by ...

A

Andre Gonzales

August 1, 2023

★ 5/10

The movie was alright. It was more of a sadistic type of love story. What they failed to capture is really how nuts she was. Like do less of a love story and more of her psychoness. The bitch was crazy! All the crazy interviews with her and all the outbursts she did in court, where's that? This movie almost tried to make you feel sorry for her when they really didn't show just how crazy she really...

C

CinemaSerf

October 26, 2025

★ 7/10

Charlize Theron is really quite convincing as the down-at-heel Aileen Wuornos, a real life character who went from hooker to serial killer in late 1980s Florida in the United States. Her’s is a dangerous profession where she encounters some of life’s slime who may pay her with cash or with a beating. It’s after one particularly toxic encounter that she finds herself in a gay bar where she meets Se...

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