Monster's Ball

A lifetime of change can happen in a single moment.

Plot Summary

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

new love

ethnic stereotype

waitress

unsociability

overweight child

parent child relationship

southern usa

loss of loved one

interracial relationship

electric chair

xenophobia

shocking

angry

dramatic

authoritarian

callous

cruel

disapproving

enraged

foreboding