Monster's Ball (2001) Reviews & Ratings

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Monster's Ball reviews

Monster's Ball holds a 6.8/10 average from 1,127 TMDB ratings.

***Powerful message in a melancholic drama bogged down by un-real contrivances and other issues*** A father and son (Billy Bob Thornton and Heath Ledger) are correctional officers in Louisiana who live with their father, a former corrections officer and hateful racist (Peter Boyle). After overseeing the execution of a black man (Sean 'Diddy' Combs) a couple of tragedies compel the father, Hank (Thornton), to meet th…
— Wuchak (6/10)

A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.

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