Number: 145

IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 (44909 votes)

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Also known as:: Black Snake Moan

Country: USA, 116 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama

Director: Craig Brewer

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson (as Lazarus), Christina Ricci (as Rae), Justin Timberlake (as Ronnie), S. Epatha Merkerson (as Angela), John Cothran (as Reverend R. L.), David Banner (as Tehronne), Michael Raymond-James (as Gill), Adriane Lenox (as Rose Woods), Kim Richards (as Sandy), Claude Phillips (as Bojo)

Medium: BluRay Disc

Plot Outline: In rural Mississippi, Lazarus, a former blues musician who survives by truck farming, finds a young girl nearly beaten to death near his home. She's the white-trash town tramp, molded by a life of sexual abuse at the hands of her father and verbal abuse from her mother, who seems to delight in reminding Rae of her mistake in not aborting her. Lazarus, who is also facing personal crisis at the dissolution of his marriage, nurses Rae back to health, providing her with gentle, fatherly advice as well as an education in blues music. Rae's boyfriend, Ronnie, goaded by the man who nearly beat Rae to death, misunderstands the relationship between Lazarus and Rae, and vows to kill him. Lazarus, exhibiting a street-smart understanding of violence and its motives, calls Ronnie's bluff, senses that he is as troubled as Rae, and becomes a guiding force in the young couple's resurrection.

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