Monster's Ball
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- Synopsis
- Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) lives with his aging racist father, Buck, and his own son, Sonny (Heath Ledger). Hank and Sonny work as guards at the local prison, where they've prepared the electric chair for a black inmate....
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- Starring
- Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger, Halle Berry, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs
- Director(s)
- Marc Forster
- Distributor(s)
- Lions Gate Films
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 111 min.
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Critic Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
As for myself, as Leticia rejoined Hank in the last shot of the movie, I was thinking about her as deeply and urgently as about any movie character I can remember.Read the full review
The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites
The raw intimacy of some of the scenes -- whether they take place at a diner, in the death house or in the bedroom -- is breathtaking.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Kevin ThomasAdd Critic to Favorites
Hank is but the latest of Thornton's strikingly taciturn characters in a whole string of movies, but for Berry, Leticia represents a big-screen breakthrough.Read the full review
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