Monster's Ball

Monster's Ball (2001) is a Marc Forster drama you can watch online on iFILM. Hank Grotowski is a Georgia corrections officer from a long line of executioners, a hard and shuttered man. Then, in a single moment, his life turns.

In the Grotowski house, putting men to death is a trade handed down through generations. Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) expects his son Sonny (Heath Ledger) to follow, but the boy buckles under the weight of the job. After a tragedy fractures the family, Hank drifts into the orbit of Leticia, a waitress whose husband he once helped send to the chair. She has no idea what he does for a living. Slowly, awkwardly, two broken people pulled apart by race and grief find each other.

Halle Berry's performance as Leticia won the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first Black woman to take the prize. Quiet and unsentimental, the film sits with guilt, racism, and forgiveness that comes too late. Stream Monster's Ball (2001) online on iFILM.