Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

About Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to exec…

Joan Churchill and Nick Broomfield directed Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, a 2003 crime documentary film. Its themes are dysfunctional family, child abuse, incest, and childhood trauma.

Aileen Wuornos stars as Self (archive footage), Nick Broomfield as Self, Diane Wuornos as Self, and Arlene Pralle as Self (archive footage). It runs 89 minutes and was released in November 2003.

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The Prince of Tides, Dead Man Walking, and Mrs. Soffel make useful companions to Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, all filed under rape victim. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 154 votes and it carries a R rating.