
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
Crime
Documentary
6.7 (135 votes)
1h 29m
Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Joan Churchill
- Writer
- N/A
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- N/A
Cast
Aileen Wuornos
Arlene Pralle
Dawn Botkins
Dennis Allen
Diane Wuornos
Dick Mills
Jeb Bush
Michelle Chauvin
Nick Broomfield
Tyria Moore
Keywords
abandoned by mother
abused child
central florida
child abuse
child raised by grandparents
childhood trauma
daytona
death penalty
death row
death sentence
domestic abuse
dysfunctional family
estranged mother
homeless child
homeless girl
homeless teenager
incest
interview
kicked out
last interview
maximum security prison
mentally ill
michigan
mother daughter estrangement
mother daughter relationship
murder
ostracism
prison
rape victim
self-defense
traumatic childhood
traumatic experience
traumatized child
traumatized person
traumatized woman
unfit mother
woman director
women in prison
working class people
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