
Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank, who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers.... (Full plot summary below)
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Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank, who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers.
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| Matinee MagazineJason ClarkMarc Forster's downbeat Southern drama really is a low-rent version of Carl Franklin's powerful One False Move |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealDirector Marc Forster shapes his love story like a master potter, forming a story of pure love, untainted by cliché. |
| Norman TranscriptJim ChastainThis is pure adult drama, about issues that are deep as life itself. |
| NutzWorldBlake French[Marc Foster] knows that careful, quiet dialogue, and long, silent pauses speak louder than lengthy emotional summaries. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAs for myself, as Leticia rejoined Hank in the last shot of the movie, I was thinking about her as deeply and urgently as about any movie character I can remember. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasHank is but the latest of Thornton's strikingly taciturn characters in a whole string of movies, but for Berry, Leticia represents a big-screen breakthrough. |
| Planet Sick-BoyJon PopickForster's edgy direction of Monster's Ball will probably be overshadowed by the two very strong lead performances. |
| San Diego Union-TribuneDavid ElliottFilmed with a lovely flow of dark shadows and warm light splashes by Roberto Schaefer, the movie is at times a little mood-mooing and too sedately restrained for its own good. And yet these people, so deep in the Deep South, are unquestionably alive. |
| Washington PostStephen HunterThe movie's stroke of sheer genius is its wondrous ending. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawAs the film progresses it becomes clear that, like a dance, Forster's film is predicated on machination but distinguished by grace. |