Thursday Movie Picks: Unrecognizable Actor Transformations

In this week's Thursday Movie Picks, the lovely weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves, we are talking about movies with great actor transformations, so great that the actor is unrecognizable. I was tempted to pick three Christian Bale films, but eventually I went with three great actresses (and films) instead. 

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) — Tilda Swinton as Madam D. 

It's 1985, a young approaches the grave of a writer and starts reading from the author's book. The author then begins narrating the tale about his trip to the Grand Budapest Hotel in 1968. There he met Zero Moustafa, the hotel's owner who starts telling him the story of how he took ownership of the hotel. 

The Hours (2002) - Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf

It follows Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) as she starts writing her book "Mrs. Dalloway" in 1923; Laura Brown (Julianne Moore), a pregnant housewife who is trying to throw a birthday party for her husband and worries about being an inadequate mother while reading Woolf's book in 1951; and Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep), a publisher living in the present, who is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS.

Monster (2005)

It tells the story of Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron), a Daytona Beach prostitute who was convicted and eventually executed for killing six men.