TY - ADVS AU - Jenkins,Patty AU - Theron,Charlize AU - Ricci,Christina AU - Dern,Bruce AU - Tergesen,Lee TI - Monster PY - 2004/// CY - [Barcelona] PB - Filmax Home Video, KW - Wuornos, Aileen KW - lcgft KW - Biographical films KW - Feature films KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures) KW - Fiction films N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 2003; Based on a true story; Trailer; Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen; ICAA Rating: Not recommended for audiences under 18 N2 - 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 clientèle in order to get money without using sex. This turned the tables on a rather common phenomenon of female highway prostitutes being the victims of serial killers--instead Wuornos, herself, carried out the deeds of a cold-blooded killer ER -