Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

R

2004

1h 29m

Documentary

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British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

Critics Consensus

This chilling, unsettling documentary provides an eye-opening look at both Wuornos and the American justice system.

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Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

05/21/2004

3/4

The film stands quite chillingly as a final statement from a woman trying to fight her own commodification.

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Jay Boyar

Orlando Sentinel

04/23/2004

4/5

A haunting exploration of a ruined and wasted life.

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

02/13/2004

[T]his movie literally gave me the chills.

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

01/24/2023

[It] boasts the final interview conducted with its clearly unwell subject and some not entirely satisfying but queasily arresting self-interrogation by her documentarian.

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‎Jim Schroeder‎

The Advocate

04/19/2022

Self-righteously predictable.

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Thrillist Entertainment Staff

Thrillist

11/28/2018

A deeply fascinating follow-up because of how much of Wuornos' story is changed from one film to the next, as well as for its moving consideration of the complex and often unbalanced relationship between documentarian and subject.

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Maksim S

@MaksimusMovies Nov 10

Director Nick Broomfield delivers a sharp, deeply unsettling portrait of Aileen Wuornos in her final days: a woman shaped by trauma, coerced narrative and state machinery. The documentary brazenly traverses her shattered past, her erratic presence on death row, and the legal system that deemed her sane enough to die. It’s a bleak, intellectually rigorous and unflinching indictment of justice, media and human collapse all in one.

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Chinu D

@RT53371300 08/09/2024

Its a greatest movie.

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Geke g

@RT40239519 08/04/2024

Someway somehow it was so enjoyable

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Munkhchimeg T

@RT64187897 08/03/2024

Amazed by the whole story and the plot.

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Bulgantamir B

@RT36664197 07/29/2024

Really fantastic I did not regret watching it

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Munkhjargal A

@RT28084692 07/29/2024

The British documentary film is making a follow-up to its 1992 documentary about a highway prostitute convicted of murdering six people in Florida. Talked to him who was mentally unstable and had a mental breakdown.

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Synopsis

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

Director: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill
Producer: Jo Human
Screenwriter: Nick Broomfield
Distributor: DEJ Productions, Lantern Lane
Production Co: Lafayette Films, Channel 4 Television Corporation
Rating: R
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 9, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 5, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $86.0K
Runtime: 1h 29m