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Monster / Aileen - Life and Death of a Serial Killer [DVD]

Charlize Theron (Actor), Christina Ricci (Actor), Joan Churchill (Director), Rated:
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3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
IMDb7.3/10.0
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Genre Drama
Format DVD, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Color, Widescreen
Contributor Bruce Dern, Rus Blackwell, Joan Churchill, Marc Macaulay, Lee Tergesen, Aileen Wuornos, Christina Ricci, Patty Jenkins, Marco St. John, Annie Corley, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Scott Wilson, Nick Broomfield, Charlize Theron See more
Language English
Runtime 3 hours and 18 minutes

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Monster
Critics have universally praised Charlize Theron's performance in Monster,and the praise, for once, is astonishingly deserved. The gorgeous star of The Italian Job and The Cider House Rules vanishes into the character of Aileen Wuornos, a real-life serial killer and prostitute who murdered at least seven men in Florida. Monster traces her relationship with a young woman named Selby (Christina Ricci, The Ice Storm, Buffalo 66), which intertwines with Wuornos's murder spree. This remarkable movie finds compassion for Wuornos but unflinchingly faces her brutal crimes; Theron expresses this woman's horrific life history without softening her terrifying, dead-eyed stare. This is a gripping, devastating performance, a physical and psychological transformation comparable to Robert DeNiro's in Raging Bull. The movie's moral and emotional complexity wouldn't succeed without this searing performance--but succeed it does, and it will stick with you for some time afterward. --Bret Fetzer

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
"We have evil in us, all of us do, and my evil just happened to come out because of the circumstances," said serial killer Aileen Wuornos in an interview conducted shortly before her execution in 2002. Director Nick Broomfield, in this sequel to his previous documentary Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, delves further into Wuornos's horrific childhood (including an interview with her biological mother) and follows the appeals process as her case goes through its final efforts. But the movie's core are the fascinating, devastating interviews with Wuornos herself, alternately lucid and delusional as she obsesses about the police, whom she believes allowed her murders to happen to increase the potential for profit from movies and books about the case. Anyone who's seen Monster, based on Wuornos's story, will find the real woman even more compelling and frightening than Charlize Theron's award-winning portrayal. --Bret Fetzer

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 8 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Joan Churchill, Nick Broomfield, Patty Jenkins
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Color, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 3 hours and 18 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 1, 2004
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Aileen Wuornos, Nick Broomfield
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0001Z36ZA
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Patty Jenkins
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

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Lilly A.
5.0 out of 5 stars JUST THAT BOTH DVD ARE EXCELLENT..
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2016
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WHAT IS TO SAY, JUST THAT BOTH DVD ARE EXCELLENT ..
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1.0 out of 5 stars Missing products
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2020
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Only received one out of the two moviee
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Kimberly C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2017
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great.
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Lawrance Bernabo
5.0 out of 5 stars Patty Jenkins & Nick Broomfield on the Monster Aileen
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2004
I saw Patty Jenkin's "Monster" before I watched Nick Broomfield's 2003 documentary "Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial" killer and if you pcik up this DVD set that is the order I would advise you follow (you can track down Broomfield's 1992 work "Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer" later if you so desire). Both of these works were produced after Wuornos was executed in Florida in 2002 for killing seven men who picked her up as a prostitute during the 1980s (one of who was trying to save her).
Having both available is because "Monster" could easily be overwhelmed by two external factors. The first is the true story of Aileen Carol Wuornos, who was actually named "America's first female serial killer" by the "Guinness Book of World Records." It is hard not to walk into this movie and not know that this woman is going to kill again and again. The second is that it is equally impossible to watch this film and not know about Charlize Theron's transformation into Aileen Wuornos. The story of her weight gain and the make up job that made it difficult to remember this is a beautiful woman are now a Hollywood legend, especially now that the performance has been eternally validated by Theron's Oscar for Best Actress. The performance is indeed superb, a case of completely inhabiting a part. What stands out is not what Theron did to her body but what she does with it: the looks and mannerisms that create this compelling character.
What surprised me the most about Jenkins's film is that it struck me as being a love story more than a horror story. Throughout the film we get bits and pieces of Aileen's life story, enough to know that she has been the victim of abuse and that years of being a prostitute have driven her down to the point of contemplating suicide. That is when Aileen meets Selby (Christina Ricci), a young lesbian trying to take her first steps out of the closet. Aileen has only suffered at the hands of men, so Selby's youth and innocence is very attractive. Aileen wants to stop hooking, but to get money so that she and Selby can get a hotel room and party for a week is different because she can convince herself that this time she is doing it for somebody else. But if Aileen finally has a good person in her life fate gives him another punch in the face, literally, when she goes off in the car of another john.
In the context of this film the first man that Aileen Wuornos killed deserved it. Whether this is what really happened with the first john Wuornos murdered is debatable (after the trial it turned out he had served ten years for a violent rape in another state), this becomes a pivotal event in Jenkins's film. However Aileen does not start killing more johns at that point. What she tries to do is find a "real" job. Of course, she does not have the education or the temperament to do anything other than what she has been doing. The tragedy told by the film is of a woman who wanted to make a better life, but her old life was such that in her warped mind this was the only thing that she can do. Even as she is killing men who do not deserve to be killed, there is a sense that her history and fate have conspired against her. It is too much to feel real sympathy for Aileen, but in the tradition of horror films, Jenkins has made her "Monster" a truly pitiable figure.
Even without seeing "The Selling of Serial Killer" it is clear that the 1992 documentary was about how Wournos' flaky lawyer, the born again Christian who "adopted" her, and the cops who worked her case were all trying to make money off her story. At the start of "Aileen" we learn that a whole bunch of cops resigned, which would seem to vindicate Bloomfield's position. The original documentary matters because in many ways this one is about Broomfield having to deal with Aileen's confessions to the murders as he stubbornly holds on to the idea that at least the first killing really was in self-defense. That is what he wants to talk about at the end while, in a profoundly ironic twist, Wuornos wants to expand on the thesis of his first documentary and talk about how the cops knew she was killing man after the first one but let her keep doing it so they could get more money for selling the story rights.
Bloomfield cinematographer/co-director Joan Churchill go back to the beginning of Wuornos' story, taking us to the house and woods in which she lived in Michigan before hitch hiking to Florida and what she through would be a happier life. There is no doubt about her guilt, or her insanity for that matter, but it is also clear that her life was pretty much a complete tragedy from the start . All of her victims were essentially random choices and you know that in their grief their families wanted to know "Why?" But this documentary just shows that trying to answer that question, inadequately, is not going to provide much peace.
Broomfield is clearly against the death penalty although that is only a tangent in the documentary that emerges mainly when he films the final interview with Wuornos the night before her execution and she is clearly mentally ill. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that mental illness is not an impediment to the death penalty, but Wuornos' ranting and raving at the end certainly gives you pause. There are no easy answers here, but everybody should have known that going into this documentary. But I do know that after watching "Monster" and then seeing the real Wuornos, you will be even more impressed by the performance of Charlize Theron.
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George Garcia
3.0 out of 5 stars An okay movie
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2020
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Well made. She looks just like the actress of the movie.
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Mad Collector
4.0 out of 5 stars Aileen Wuornos--Chilling Real-Life Character
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2007
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I have to admit that I have followed this serial killer's story in the way one can't turn away from a horrifying car accident. You know it is grisly, but you got to just take a peek. The feature film, Monster, aside--the documentary included with this item is a sequel to Nick Broomfield's first film about Aileen from ten years prior. Nick seems a man obsessed with her history and her motivations behind killing several men. In interviews, Aileen seems demonic at times, and very human and likable the next. Charlize Theron's portrayal of her was on the mark, but I find the documentary is the most engaging when you realize this was an actual person that existed. Aileen's scattered and prophetic claims at the end of the documentary just before her execution are chilling at best. Another surprise upon viewing Patty Jenkins' feature with Theron and Ricci is the disc's special features including a chapter about BT's scoring of the film. He is known for his mainstream upbeat techno music, but his score is subdued and is personally explained by the composer in interviews.
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Carol Engan Borrelli
3.0 out of 5 stars Monster is a monster.
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2004
I watched this film last night...mostly due to the fact that I live within 30 miles of Aileen's path. I remember most vividly the day she was executed. The press, of course, beat it into the ground.
I was somewhat bored with the movie. Charlize Theron did a fantastic job as most people will attest....it is hard to believe that she, the most beautiful real life person, was transformed into Aileen Wuornos....but what a great job!!! She looked disturbingly like the real McCoy.
I watched the entire movie in an attempt to learn about the person, who we all know was very disturbed for so many reasons. I found it to be very realistic to the sub-life in Florida...such a transient and crime-ridden state. There are so many like Aileen. It is a sad story.
I'm glad I didn't pay to see it in the movies, although I guess I paid just as much for the rental. I would recommend it only to see Theron's performance, which was superb.
It would have been better had they delved more into the life of the girl, not just when she started killing people, and then the aftermath of her execution, what her family is doing, feeling. How about Selby, who never spoke to her again after her arrest.
If there is nothing else available, go for it. Or if you're into the crime stuff, ok. I would have loved to have seen more of the investigation as well. Nothing, except her arrest at the bar.
Oh well...
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Sharon
5.0 out of 5 stars Good quality dvd
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2021
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Good quality dvd. Good movie. And good story.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than description
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2019
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Arrived well ahead of schedule and as new with original celephan on
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on March 31, 2017
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Excellent experience!!! Would absolutely recommend and purchase from seller again!!! 5~STARS +
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic film
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2018
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Eerily Charline Theron looks so much like the lady . Brilliant film
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