Monster's ball [videorecording] / Lions Gate Films presents a Lee Daniels Entertainment production ; produced by Lee Daniels ; written by Milo Addica & Will Rokos ; directed by Marc Forster.
Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger, Halle Berry, Sean Combs, Mos Def, Will Rokos, Milo Addica, Coronji Calhoun, Peter Boyle. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001. Special features: behind-the-scenes footage; audio commentary by director Marc Forster and director of photography Roberto Schaefer; audio commentary by Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton; never-before-seen deleted scenes and outtakes; theatrical trailer; IFC's anatomy of a scene.
Summary:
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
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