Monster

Monster (2003) is a crime drama by Patty Jenkins you can watch online on iFILM. It follows Aileen Wuornos, a drifting Florida sex worker, in a role Charlize Theron buried herself in so completely that she vanishes.

Aileen is out of options. No money, nowhere to sleep, and a head full of dark thoughts. In a roadside bar she meets Selby (Christina Ricci), a shy young woman shipped off to Florida by relatives hoping to talk her out of loving women. The two fall hard for each other. To keep them both housed, Aileen goes back to working the highway. When a client turns violent, something snaps for good, and one killing pulls the next one behind it.

To disappear into the part, Theron gained weight and reshaped her whole face and walk; the performance won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Jenkins' first feature leans on neither shock nor sympathy, but on two women boxed in by poverty and loneliness. Stream Monster (2003) online on iFILM.