- Studio: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
- Release Date: Jan 9, 2004
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings
- Starring: Aileen Wuornos, Nick Broomfield
- Summary: This documentary provides an insight into the mind of Aileen Wournos (whose story is the basis for the feature film "Monster"), a deeply paranoid yet sympathetic person who lost her mind and killed seven people. (Nick Broomfield)
- Director: Joan Churchill
- Genre(s): Crime, Documentary
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100In addition to its own merits as a social and cultural document, Broomfield's film continues the welcome trend of more and more nonfiction movies finding their way to theater screens and attracting wide general audiences.
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80It makes an eloquent case against the death penalty, especially when imposed on the mentally incompetent. For if one thing is clear by the time she went to the execution chamber, it's that Wuornos is barking mad, her eyes wild and vengeful, yet also, on some level, already dead.
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80The pacing is perfect and there’s no shortage of interesting revelations, and let’s face it, there aren’t many more subjects under the sun that are more interesting than serial killers. Consider "Aileen" to be an essential viewing companion to its dramatic narrative counterpart.
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60Broomfield's investigatory technique remains a frustrating pileup of unfocused Q&As and misplaced credulity. But when Broomfield travels to her Michigan hometown, he pieces together a life blighted at breech-birth: a grotesque of abandonment, incest, physical and sexual abuse, pregnancy at 13, and homelessness.
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