Local Showtimes
 Everything is hotter down south.
Calls me when I'm ailing... When I can't find my home... Mm-mm... got no mama now... I calls it the Black Snake Moan.
-- Lazarus
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.
from the Official Site
|
from Paramount Vantage
Directed by
Craig Brewer
Starring
Samuel L. Jackson (Lazarus)
Christina Ricci (Rae)
Justin Timberlake (Ronnie)
S. Epatha Merkerson (Angela)
John Cothran Jr. (Reverend R. L.)
David Banner (Tehronne)
Michael Raymond-James (Gill)
Adriane Lenox (Rose Woods)
Kim Richards (Sandy)
Neimus K. Williams (Lincoln)
Leonard L. Thomas (Deke Woods)
Ruby Wilson (Mayella)
Claude Phillips (Bojo)
Amy Lavere (Jesse)
Clare Grant (Kell)
Jeff Pope (Batson)
Charles 'Skip' Pitts (Charlie)
Willie Hall (Pinetop)
John Malloy (Gene)
T.C. Sharpe (Archie)
John Still (Herman)
Jared Hopkins (Auto Worker)
Tosh Newman (Conner)
Cody Block (Bryan)
Benjamin Rednour (Guardsman)
Carnell Pepper (Melvin)
David Chapman (Red)
Jolynne Palmer (Ella Mae)
Raymond Neal (Hershel)
John Pickle (Arty)
Kim Justis (Waitress)
Cedric Burnside (Himself)
Kenny Brown (Himself)
Written by
Craig Brewer
Rated: 
(for strong sexual content, language, some violence and drug use) |
Black Snake Moan (DVD)
Black Snake Moan [CD]
Original Soundtrack
Nymphomania: A History
by Carol Groneman
Movie Posters
Classic
Movie Posters
|