The true-life story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute executed in 2002 in Florida after being convicted of murdering six men. While Wuornos confessed to the six murders, including a policeman, she claimed to have killed only in self-defense, resisting violent assaults while working as a prostitute.In 1989-90, a love story unfolds in the midst of the horrors and pathologies of two misfits: Wuornos, a drifter prostitute and Selby Wall, sent by her parents to live with an aunt in Florida in order to "cure her homosexuality".

Nearing suicidal despair, Aileen wanders into a bar, where she meets Selby and falls in love. To keep her and Selby''s relationship alive, she continues hooking, only to fuel an increasingly escalating deadly rage, a fury vented with a lurid string of killings and the media''s sordid designation of her as the first female serial killer--a monster.

Directed by
Patty Jenkins

Cast
Charlize Theron - Aileen Wuornos
Christina Ricci - Selby Wall
Bruce Dern - Thomas
Pruitt Taylor-Vince - Gene
Annie Corley - Donna Tentler
Scott Wilson - Horton Rohrbach
Lee Tergesen - Vincent Corey
Bubba Baker - Cubby
Marc Macaulay - Will Grueser
Marco St John - Evan/Undercover "john"
Lyllian Barcaski - Bar Girl
Rus Blackwell - Cop

Production Co.
Denver & Delilah Films]
Junction Films
Media 8 Entertainment

Produced by
Sammy Lee
Stewart Hall
Meagan Riley-Grant

Studio
Newmarket Films

Writer
Patty Jenkins

Music
Brian "BT" Transeau