Stop complaining about your childhood. Aileen Wuornos, the subject of this disturbing documentary (and the just released Monster, starring Charlize Theron), suffered years of abuse before being thrown out of the house at age 13 for getting pregnant. To survive, she turned to robbery and prostitution. While hitchhiking and hooking her way across the states, she murdered seven men--in what she at first claimed was self-defense then later recanted.
In Nick Broomfield's second documentary about "the first female serial killer," Wuornos comes across as a tragic victim of society and a questionable judicial system hell-bent on executing her (which Florida did in 2002). Broomfield's voiceover commentary sounds like a bad Robin Leach impression at times, but his fascinating interviews with the real Wuornos elicit sympathy as well as a strong case of the heebie-jeebies.