Monster
2003
****
Director: Patty Jenkins
Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen, Annie Corley, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Marco St. John, Marc Macaulay, Scott Wilson
Aileen Wuornos (1956-2002) was a prostitute who ended up killing six men between 1989 and 1990. Patty Jenkins' feature debut is a smart and gritty true crime drama and a moving love story, which attempts to show what drove her to take the lives of those men. The Academy Award winning Charlize Theron is awesome as Wuornos, not merely because she looks ugly and unglamorous, but because she nails all aspects of the character (facial ticks, body language, hunched walk, speech patterns, etc.).
