Monster

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Awards

Academy Awards 2004 - Won - Best Actress

BAFTA Awards 2005 - Nominated - Best Actress

Berlin International Film Festival 2004 - Nominated - Golden Berlin Bear

Berlin International Film Festival 2004 - Won - Best Actress

Academy Awards 2004 - Won - Best Actress

BAFTA Awards 2005 - Nominated - Best Actress

Berlin International Film Festival 2004 - Nominated - Golden Berlin Bear

Berlin International Film Festival 2004 - Won - Best Actress

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2004 - Won - Best Actress

Casting Society of America Awards 2004 - Won - Best Casting for an Independent Feature Film

Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards 2004 - Won - Best Actress

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2004 - Won - Best Actress

Golden Globe Awards 2004 - Won - Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama

Independent Spirit Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best First Screenplay

Independent Spirit Awards 2004 - Won - Best Female Lead

Independent Spirit Awards 2004 - Won - Best First Feature

National Board of Review Awards 2003 - Won - Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2004 - Won - Best Actress

Satellite Awards 2004 - Won - Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2004 - Won - Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

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Monster

Director:
Patty Jenkins
R, 109 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

Charlize Theron stars in Monster, a shockingly moving film that burrows deep beneath the tabloid-sized headline stories on Aileen Wuornos, the man-hating --- and murdering --- serial killer executed last year in Florida. Director Patty Jenkins unearths a love story in the midst of the horrors and pathologies of two misfits: Wuornos, a drifter prostitute who kills many of her "johns" and Selby Wall (Christina Ricci), sent by her parents to live with an aunt in Florida in order to "cure her homosexuality". Nearing suicidal despair, Aileen wanders into a bar, where she meets Selby and falls in love. To keep her and Selby's relationship alive, she continues hooking, only to fuel an increasingly escalating deadly rage, a fury vented with a lurid string of killings and the media's sordid designation of her as the first female serial killer --- a monster.

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Our Take

"Critics called Charlize Theron's performance among the best in the history of movie acting. They were right."

Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence and sexual content, and for pervasive language.

Runtime:
109 min.

Genre:
Drama

Countries:
UNITED STATES
GERMANY

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Certification:
R

Tagline

Based on a true story.

 

Memorable Quotes

Aileen: Ffffffuck you, Leslie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aileen: "Love conquers all." "Every cloud has a silver lining." "Faith can move mountains." "Love will always find a way." "Everything happens for a reason." "Where there is life, there is hope." [laughs] Aileen: Oh, well... They gotta tell you somethin' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lawyer: Can I tell you something? When the beach party is over, you don't get to say. "You know what? Now I think I'd like to have what everybody else has worked their entire life for." It doesn't work that way. Aileen: Fuck you, man. Yeah, FUCK YOU! YOU DON'T FUCKIN' KNOW ME! Lawyer: OK, great. That's great. See, now I'm so sorry I didn't hire you before. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aileen: "All you need is love and to believe in yourself." [scoffs] Aileen: Nice idea. It doesn't exactly work out that way. But I guess it was better to hear a flat-out lie than to know the truth at 13. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will: You wanna call me "Daddy" while I fuck you, huh? Aileen: I'll try. Why? You like to fuck your kids? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bartender: The bar's closed. Aileen: Then do you think you could pull that stick out of your ass? Hm? Now that "the bar's closed". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aileen: I'm not a bad person. I'm a real good person. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selby: We can be as different as we wanna be, but you can't kill people! Aileen: SAYS WHO? I'm good with the Lord. I'm fine with him. And I know how you were raised, alright? And I know how people fuckin' think out there, and fuck, it's gotta be that way. They've gotta tell you that 'Thou shall not kill' shit and all of that. But that's not the way the world works, Selby. Cuz I'm out there every fuckin' day living it. Who the fuck knows what God wants? People kill each other every day and for what? Hm? For politics, for religion, and THEY'RE HEROES! No, no... there's a lot of shit I can't do anymore, but killing's not one of them. And letting those fucking bastards go out and rape someone else isn't either! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aileen: People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance, because they think you took the easy way out, when no one could imagine the willpower it took to do what we do. Walking the streets, night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selby: I just wanna live, Lee. I just want a normal happy life. I don't know why you did this. Aileen: Because I love you. Because I love you and I never wanna to loose you and that's all. I love you from my heart, my soul, my mind. And I never let you down. All right? Because it was me. It was only me. And I'll tell them that, ok. It's over for me now. And I never gonna see you again. Selby: Yeah, I know. Aileen: I wish there was a way that people can forgive you for something about this, you know. But they can't. They can't, man. So I gonna die, Sel.... Hey Sel, I'll never forget you. Good bye, baby. Bye baby. Selby: Good bye, Lee. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aileen: So where's your friends? Selby: Well... Uh... I'm not... Aileen: [laughs] Selby: You're mean!

 

 

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