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Monster's Ball is a american film of genre Drama directed by Marc Forster released in USA on 11 november 2001 with Billy Bob Thornton
Monster's Ball (2001)
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Add to a movie listMonster's Ball is a 2001 American romantic drama film directed by German-Swiss director Marc Forster starring Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton and Heath Ledger. The film tells the story of a poor Southern woman who falls for a widowed prison-guard after the execution of her husband.
Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her leading performance, and, as of 2015, is the first and only African-American woman to do so.
Synopsis
Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton), a widower, and his son, Sonny (Heath Ledger), are corrections officers in a local state prison. They reside in Georgia with Hank's ailing father, Buck (Peter Boyle), a racist whose wife committed suicide.Actors
Billy Bob Thornton
(Hank Grotowski)
Halle Berry
(Leticia Musgrove)
Heath Ledger
(Sonny Grotowski)
Peter Boyle
(Buck Grotowski)
Sean Combs
(Lawrence Musgrove)
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