Monster's Ball
Monster's Ball is a 2001 film about a racist prison guard who, after a family tragedy, re-examines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American wife of the last prisoner he executed.
- Directed by Marc Forster. Written by Milo Addica and Will Rokos.
A lifetime of change can happen in a single moment.
Hank Grotowski
[edit]- I went by our station on the way home... I like that sign. I think we're gonna be alright.
- [to Sonny about Lawrence Musgrove] You fucked him up! You fucked up that man's last walk!
Lawrence Musgrove
[edit]- I've always believed that a portrait captures a person far better than a photograph. It truly takes a human being to really see a human being.
Buck Grotowski
[edit]- You ain't no man till you split dark oak.
- What the hell those niggers doing out there?
- Damn porch monkeys! Your mother, she hated them niggers too.
Dialogue
[edit]- Sonny Grotowski: You hate me. You hate me, don't you? Answer me! You hate me, don't you?
- Hank Grotowski: Yeah, I hate you. I always did.
- Sonny Grotowski: Well, I've always loved you.
- Ms. Guillermo: You must love him very much.
- Hank Grotowski: No, I don't. But he's my father. So, there it is.
- Lawrence Musgrove: I'm a bad man.
- Tyrell Musgrove: Who says?
- Lawrence Musgrove: I do.
- Warden Velesco: Lawrence Musgrove, do you have anything you'd like to say?
- Lawrence Musgrove: [after a pause he shakes his head] Push da button.
- Hank Grotowski: Let's get this over quick.
- Minister: is there a passage you'd like me to read?
- Hank Grotowski: No, all I wanna hear is dirt hit that box.
- Hank Grotowski: I wanna take care of you.
- Leticia Musgrove: Good. Cuz' I need to be taken care of.
- Hank Grotowski: I'm not sure what exactly you want.
- Leticia Musgrove: You know what I want... I want you to make me feel good. Can you make me feel good, can you make me feel good? I wanna feel good... I wanna feel...
- Leticia Musgrove: ...What?
- Hank Grotowski: Oh, nothing, I-I just uhm... I'm gonna go out and buy some ice cream.
- Leticia Musgrove: [laughs] ... Now?
- Hank Grotowski: Yeah... It just feels right.
- [Both laugh]
- Leticia Musgrove: Okay.
- Hank Grotowski: Well...
- Leticia Musgrove: Can you buy me some?
- Hank Grotowski: Yea. What kind you want?
- Leticia Musgrove: Chocolate.
- Buck Grotowski: Who are you?
- Leticia Musgrove: Um...
- Buck Grotowski: You just walked in my house.
- Leticia Musgrove: My bad. I thought...
- Buck Grotowski: Hank? You lookin' for Hank?
- Leticia Musgrove: Yes. Is he here?
- Buck Grotowski: Who are you?
- Leticia Musgrove: My name is Leticia Musgrove... and, uh... me and Hank is, uh... friends.
- Buck Grotowski: Musgrove? Please, little darlin', have you got a cigarette?
- Leticia Musgrove: Yeah, but it looks to me like you really don't need to be smoking.
Cast
[edit]- Billy Bob Thornton - Hank Grotowski
- Heath Ledger - Sonny Grotowski
- Halle Berry - Leticia Musgrove
- Sean Combs - Lawrence Musgrove
- Mos Def - Ryrus Cooper
- Coronji Calhoun - Tyrell Musgrove
- Peter Boyle - Buck Grotowski
External links
[edit]
- Monster's Ball quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Monster's Ball at Rotten Tomatoes
- Monster's Ball at Mojo