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Monster's Ball

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R,1hr 51min

Genres:

Drama,Action

Released:

November 11, 2001

Director:

Marc Forster

Distributor:

Lions Gate Films Inc.

Starring:

Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger, Halle Berry ...more

Synopsis: Director Marc Forster, winner of Best Feature at Slamdance for his debut film Loungers (1996) and the "Someone to Watch" Independent Spirit Award for his indie drama Everything Put Together (2000), follows up those acclaimed projects with this intense, racially charged romance. Billy Bob Thornton stars as Georgia prison guard Hank Grotowski, a hard-drinking racist ex-cop whose father, Buck (Peter Boyle), is dying of emphysema and whose son, Sonny (Heath Ledger), works the execution detail at the ... Full Synopsis

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	Derek Armstrong : For the first time since Losing Isaiah in 1995, Halle Berry steps into a role she's shown reluctance to play: a working-class woman of limited intelligence and refinement, who speaks with a dialect and vocabulary that invokes cruel stereotypes. In the dreadful comedy B.A.P.S. and the wicked satire Bulworth, she offered spoofing variations on that character type, but only here does she stare it down. ... Full Review

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	Billy Bob Thornton Hank Grotowski Heath Ledger Sonny Grotowski Halle Berry Leticia Musgrove, Letitia Musgrove Peter Boyle Buck Grotowski

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