Monsters Ball (DVD)
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The term 'Monster's Ball' is a reference to a practice in the 19th Century, where a condemned man would spend the night before his execution celebrating at a ball held in his honour (forgive the male pronoun - it's easier). This film starts the day before a man, Lawrence Musgrove (Sean Combs), is executed. He doesn't get a party. The film opens on Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton) sleeping as the credits roll. He awakens and gets dressed. Then we cut to Sonny Grotowski (Heath Ledger) as he relieves himself with a prostitute called Vera. Cut back to Hank collecting his mail and looking after his decrepit father Buck (Peter Boyle), who rapidly establishes himself as very racist — that's one of the strong themes of this film. Hank runs two little black boys off his property with a shotgun, even though they came to see his son, Sonny. We learn that Hank is in charge of the team that will be overseeing the execution, and that Sonny is a member of the team (later we discover that Buck was a corrections officer, too).
Hank is concerned about doing his job right. He feels strongly that everything must be right, that a man's last walk must be dignified, must be respectful.
Meanwhile, Lawrence is having his last meeting with his boy, Tyrell (Coronji Calhoun), and his wife, Leticia (Halle Berry). Apparently she has been visiting him in jail for eleven years, and he has finally run out of appeals.
Through circumstance, Hank finds himself falling for Musgrove's widow, though neither is aware that the other has a connection to the executed Musgrove. This attraction challenges everything Hank has learned from his racist father, and he is forced to deal with other issues including the value of family and mixed relationships. It is only in the final few minutes when some hidden truths are exposed, that the underlying tension raises its head, and from a rather unlikely source.
EXTRA FEATURES
Interviews - Cast and Crew
Featurette - Anatomy of a Scene
Featurette - Behind the Music
Audio Commentary - director Marc Forster, actors Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry
Monsters Ball (DVD)
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$10.95
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$10.95
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🔴 Condition - Very Good 🔴
The term 'Monster's Ball' is a reference to a practice in the 19th Century, where a condemned man would spend the night before his execution celebrating at a ball held in his honour (forgive the male pronoun - it's easier). This film starts the day before a man, Lawrence Musgrove (Sean Combs), is executed. He doesn't get a party. The film opens on Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton) sleeping as the credits roll. He awakens and gets dressed. Then we cut to Sonny Grotowski (Heath Ledger) as he relieves himself with a prostitute called Vera. Cut back to Hank collecting his mail and looking after his decrepit father Buck (Peter Boyle), who rapidly establishes himself as very racist — that's one of the strong themes of this film. Hank runs two little black boys off his property with a shotgun, even though they came to see his son, Sonny. We learn that Hank is in charge of the team that will be overseeing the execution, and that Sonny is a member of the team (later we discover that Buck was a corrections officer, too).
Hank is concerned about doing his job right. He feels strongly that everything must be right, that a man's last walk must be dignified, must be respectful.
Meanwhile, Lawrence is having his last meeting with his boy, Tyrell (Coronji Calhoun), and his wife, Leticia (Halle Berry). Apparently she has been visiting him in jail for eleven years, and he has finally run out of appeals.
Through circumstance, Hank finds himself falling for Musgrove's widow, though neither is aware that the other has a connection to the executed Musgrove. This attraction challenges everything Hank has learned from his racist father, and he is forced to deal with other issues including the value of family and mixed relationships. It is only in the final few minutes when some hidden truths are exposed, that the underlying tension raises its head, and from a rather unlikely source.
EXTRA FEATURES
Interviews - Cast and Crew
Featurette - Anatomy of a Scene
Featurette - Behind the Music
Audio Commentary - director Marc Forster, actors Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry