There
was a time when Lazarus (SAMUEL L. JACKSON) played the
blues; a time he got Bojo’s Juke Joint shakin’ back in the
day. Now he lives them. Bitter and broken from a cheating
wife and a shattered marriage, Lazarus’ soul is lost in
spent dreams and betrayal’s contempt…Until Rae (CHRISTINA
RICCI).
Half naked and
beaten unconscious, Rae is left for dead on the side of the
road when Lazarus discovers her. The God-fearing,
middle-aged black man quickly learns that the young white
woman he’s nursing back to health is none other than the
town tramp from the small Tennessee town where they live.
Worse, she has a peculiar anxiety disorder. He realizes when
the fever hits, Rae’s affliction has more to do with love
lost than any found. Abused as a child and abandoned by her
mother, Rae is used by just about every man in the phone
book. She tethers her only hope to Ronnie (JUSTIN
TIMBERLAKE), but escape to a better life is short-lived when
Ronnie ships off for boot camp. Desperation kicks in, as a
drug-induced Rae reverts to surviving the only way she knows
how, by giving any man what he wants to get what she
needs…Until Lazarus.
Refusing to know
her in the biblical sense, Lazarus decides to cure Rae of
her wicked ways – and vent some unresolved male vengeance of
his own. He chains her to his radiator, justifying his
unorthodox methods with quoted scripture. Preacher R.L.
(JOHN COTHRAN) intervenes, but it is Lazarus and Rae who
redeem themselves. Unleashing Rae emotionally, Lazarus
unchains his heart, finding love again in Angela (S. EPATHA
MERKERSON). By saving Rae, he frees himself.
The film is the third feature by Writer-Director Craig
Brewer, his first film HUSTLE & FLOW won an Academy Award®
for Best Song and the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Audience
Award. A Paramount Vantage production, BLACK SNAKE MOAN is
produced by John Singleton and Stephanie Allain, who also
produced HUSTLE & FLOW. Paramount Vantage is a specialty
division of Paramount Pictures.
©
Paramount Vantage. Pictures. All
rights reserved
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