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Monster's Ball (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 139
Fresh: 119
Rotten:20
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Consensus: Somber and thought provoking, Monster's Ball has great performances all around.
Theatrical Release: Dec 26, 2001 Limited
Box Office: $31,252,964
Synopsis: MONSTER'S BALL is a hard hitting Southern drama tempered by a story of powerful, life-changing love. It is the story of Hank (Billy Bob Thornton), an embittered prison guard working on Death Row who begins an unlikely, but emotionally... [More]
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle
Director: Marc Forster
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Reviews for Monster's Ball
Though marred by script that telegraphs its messages, this drama still manages to tell a compelling love story betweenn a redneck guard and a black widow, well played by Billy Bob Thronton and particularly Halle Berre, who should get Oscar nomination
12/25/06
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02/09/06
Forster makes us too intimate with these characters. But, heavy-handed and derivative as it is, its lead actors strike some resonant chords....
12/06/04
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05/13/03
Forster's poised direction, as well as powerful turns from Billy Bob Thornton and the Oscar-winning Halle Berry, make this compelling viewing.
03/02/03
Recalls Tender Mercies, another astutely acted character study that remained resolutely small-scale and was all the more affecting because it didn't overreach.
12/02/02
It's not a polemic on the death penalty, race relations or family dynamics. It's a character study that really sticks with you.
11/06/02
Top Critic Much of the film works, performances all around are better than the script, and the whole (especially the first part) is well directed by Marc Forster.
10/21/02
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10/17/02
A fine film that packs enormous ambition into a modest, carefully executed package.
10/15/02
In a movie season already nourished with tales of domestic despair, Monster's Ball is the most complex, naturalistic, and sympathetic.
08/26/02
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