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Synopsis: The true story of serial killer Aileen Wuernos who was convicted of luring men to their death and eventually executed in 2002. In 1989, she was working as a prostitute and finally makes a friend when she meets and begins a relationship with a young woman, Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, she tries to find legitimate work but with little education and limited social skills, she fails at every turn. She starts working as a hooker hitching rides along the local interstate highway and after robbing a few clients has an encounter with a vicious client whom she kills in self-defense. After that however she just takes to killing clients taking their money and car. Once arrested she claims self-defense but is eventually convicted.
Director(s): Patty Jenkins
Production: Newmarket Film Group
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 29 wins & 25 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
R
Year:
2003
109 min
$34,187,787
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We're moving?

Yes, f*** this place, right?

This no place for my girl

Oh, man, a real place?

an apartment?

Ya what you happy now?

- Yeah, I'm happy

I know baby, I know

We're good now,

I told you

And that's what I mean

In my life, it has always been the

harmless stuff that hurt the most

When there're things so horribly,

you can't even imagine it

It's usually a lot easier

than you think

You never really know,

until you're the one standing there

No problem

How is your arm?

It looks weird

So ok?

Cos I knew I was coming

home to you

I love you

Waitress

This stuff is so good

thanks for taking me here

It's ok, it's ok you know

It's pretty fine, but.. man, someday

I'm gonna take you to some...

Real top places in the

Keys, like some real classy joints

Keys?

- Yeah

I always wanna go to Keys

I always wanna have a

house on the beach, you know

But I haven't even been to the beach

since I've been here

So gal I'll buy you a house

on the beach, how about that?

Those places are like thousands

of thousands of dollars

So what? You think I can't

get you a house on the beach?

What else you want?

You want a little purple porsh huh?

This is no-smoking area

You have to put the cigarette out

What are you doing, man?

you gonna sing us a song or what?

Let me have that

Get your f***ing hand off her

You piece of sh*t!

We're paying f***ing

customer here

What? what you got?

You wanna bring it on?

You all better watch your

f***ing food...

Cos there was a f***ing cockroach

in mine, size like this

This is not how you run a

f***ing establishment man

So what's your deal, man?

Where you like to f***

Like to f*** in the back?

So really like to get

real rough?

Sh*t, I bet you get real

rough back there huh?

Real nasty

You like that huh?

Maybe you wanna slap me

round a little bit huh?

Don't think I don't

see it, man

What, you can't speak?

what the f***?

What, you got a

f***ing problem?

Cat got your f***ing tongue huh?

I don't like it rough

I've never done this before,

but I have...

Take your pants off

Thank you.

You are welcome

You wanna have a

beer with me?

Don't you wanna

come to bed?

In a minute

Wake up

Wake up, I wanna go out

Hey, mind if I angle in on those nuts?

This guy is an a**hole right...

Flick his chair over,

flick his sh*t around all that jazz

F***ing office job right?

f***ing retard sitting on the phone...

And talking to people all day long,

bla bla bla. Bullshit

Sounds like you're at fun world

What's fun world?

Fun world in Orlando,

this one over here said:

We all have to go on Thursday night,

then she starts some fight with a bunch of f***ing red necks

Get the f*** in here!

Where the f*** were you?

I was out

In that f***ing car?

So? What are you doing?

I'm just cleaning

this f***ing pigsty we're leaving in that's all

What the f*** were you doing?

I was out, we needed stuff

We don't need this

f***ing sh*t, Selby

Who the f*** told you

to take that f***ing car?

Leen what difference

does it make?

The difference?

Because I'm f***ing borrow

a car from my friend...

That's my f***ing business,

ok, that's what?

I'm gonna go any place

that I want to

Ok? any time I want

Not in my f***ing friend's

car, you are not!

Fine, fine, then I'll walk

Ok, I don't wanna sit

here alone all the time,

I wanna go out I wanna

meet people

I wanna hang out with people

without you f***ing scaring them off

Where would you like to go?

I don't know...

Travel... see different

places

We could go to Fun World

You wanna go to Fun World?

Not now

No, now I gotta take the

f***ing car back

And now we don't have any

f***ing money like usual, Selby

So, you're leaving?

Hey Selby, check it out

Hey, there're my friends

Hey remember me?

I figure you guys would be here

I loved her...

But the thing no one ever

realized about me...

Was believe that I could learn

I could train myself into

anything

People always look

down their noses at hookers

Never give you a chance because

they think you took the easy way out

And no one could imagine the

will power it took to what we do

Walkin the streets,

night after night

Taking the hitch and still

getting back up

We wanna go again

But I did,

and they don't miss out

Cause they've no idea what

I can discipline myself to

And I believe in something

And I believed in her

I need to sit down

Oh there she is

- Who is she?

I gotta talk to her

Hey you wanna ride

the Ferris Wheel?

Nope

We're gonna go sit down

Are you ok?

My brothers and sisters,

screwed me royal

After my daddy killed

himself, we were out on the streets

And the neighbors would let them stay

over but only if I didn't tag along

So I stayed clear

But I knew they didn't have

any money, you know

I was having a hook

anyway...

So I always made sure they had new cloths,

cigarettes, and stuff like that

But then there's 1 night, we're at this party and this

guy comes in and he's like...

She f***ed so and so

And they're are all embarrassed..

They were f***ing standing

in the corner, all...

So they... you know they

threw me out of the snow

Screaming out, I'm a whore,

and they were so embarrassed...

And they hate me

and all that

And that was it

I just took off never

went back

That's really sad

Your own family doing that to you

That's how people are,

Selby

Yeah... I know

F*** them,

who need them?

Right

Yeah, f*** them!

No, right, Selby, right!

Get out!

get the f*** out!

You all ok?

I'm gonna call an ambulance

That's ok

We don't have any insurance

We just rather...

do it ourselves

You know, she's good

You have yourselves a

good day now, ok

Let's go, Selby, now!

- No! no! I wanna drive

He's f***ing dead,

let's go, now!

No!

- Selby!

Who killed that man?

What do you think?

Oh my god, they're coming for us

What are you talking

about?

You f***ing killing people

Now listen to me,

they are not coming

I never wanted you in this

sh*t to begin with

But I know what

I am doing

And you'll never gonna

understand it, alright?

You gotta trust me

They don't have

They got nothing

They are not even looking, man,

this sh*t is long over already

I didn't want wreck the f***ing car in public

but we did you know, we did

So if they'll gonna call the cops,

they would've done it by now!

How could you?

You knew

No... I knew about 1... 1

No, Selby... no Sel

Come in here

We're gonna have a drink, and we're

gonna forget about all this alright?

Cheers

Leen, this isn't funny

You don't know what's

going on, Sel

I do, so if you wanna keep your

eyes shut to the whole world...

The least you can do

is hear me out

It's not what you

think it is, alright

I know what it is

No, you don't know

my life, Selby!

But I know yours

And I've done everything

in the whole wide world

Hoping that you'll never

have to know

So that you can go on

thinking that people are good

And kind and that it should

make sense, you know?

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Patty Jenkins

Patricia Lea Jenkins (born July 24, 1971) is an American film director and screenwriter. She directed Monster (2003) and Wonder Woman (2017) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020). more…

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