Monster (2003)
Movie: Monster (2003)
- Director: Patty Jenkins
- Release Date: 7 April 2005 (Hong Kong)
- Run Time: 109 min
- Country: USA , Germany
- Genre: Biography , Crime , Drama , Romance
- MPAA: Rated R for strong violence and sexual content, and for pervasive language.
Tagline: Based on a true story
Trivia: Patty Jenkins has said that she knew Charlize Theron was perfect for the role of Aileen Wuornos when she awoke to a scene of The Devil's Advocate (1997) on television. Jenkins at the time was writing her film Monster. She said that an actress that would allow a closeup of her nose running, as Theron did, would be open enough to pull off the challenging role of Wuornos.
Goofs: Anachronisms: At the beginning of the film, Lee is sitting under an overpass of a major Interstate. The film is set in the 1980s, but many of the cars passing by are newer than that.
“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 clientele in order to get money without using sex. 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. Written by Sujit R. Varma”
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