Based on a true story.
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.
- Sexual violence
- Bleak ending
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Character
Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Charlize TheronAileen Wuornos
- Christina RicciSelby Wall
- Bruce DernThomas
- Lee TergesenVincent Corey
- Annie CorleyDonna
- Pruitt Taylor VinceGene / Stuttering "John"
- Marco St. JohnEvan / Undercover "John"
- Marc MacaulayWill / Daddy "John"
- Scott WilsonHorton / Last "John"
- Rus BlackwellCop
Crew
- Patty JenkinsDirector
- Patty JenkinsWriter
- Steven BernsteinDirector of Photography
- BTOriginal Music Composer
- Arthur CoburnEditor
- Jane KursonEditor
- Charlize TheronProducer
- Brad WymanProducer
- Clark PetersonProducer
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Pairings
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