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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 9, 2003

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Documentary, Crime

User Score

68%

Original Title

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

Production Companies

Lafayette Films

Director

Joan Churchill

Description

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 execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.