HUSTLE AND FLOW was my number one flick of 2005, and that movie's writer/ director
has another flick coming in 2007, the Samuel L. Jackson starring BLACK SNAKE MOAN.
Paramount Vantage have provided THN with a full synopsis for the film along
with a huge gallery (pan down for that) and the official one sheet.
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.
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