BLACK SNAKE MOAN (2006)

 

There was a time when Lazarus 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. 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, 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. intervenes, but it is Lazarus and Rae who redeem themselves. Unleashing Rae emotionally, Lazarus unchains his heart, finding love again in Angela. By saving Rae, he frees himself.

 

 

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Soundtrack

The Black Keys - "When The Lights Go Out"
Outrageous Cherry - "Lord Have Mercy On Me"
Jessie Mae Hemphill - "Standing In My Doorway Crying"
Heartless Bastards - "Pass And Fail"
Eldorado and the Ruckus - "Mr. Oblivian"
John Doe - "The Losing Kind"
Samuel L. Jackson and Kenny Brown - "Just Like A Bird Without A Feather"
Al Kapone - "Hate On"
Traditional Performed by Precious Bryant - "Morning Train"
Bobby Rush - "Chicken Heads"
Samuel L. Jackson - "Catfish Blues"
Big Jack Johnson - "Jack's Blues"
Samuel L. Jackson and Big Jack Johnson - "Catfish Medley" Consisting of: "Catfish Blues" and: "Still a Fool"
Traditional Performed by Tate County Singers - "Jesus On The Mainline"
Otha Turner and The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - "Granny, Do Your Dog Bite?"
Junior Kimbrough - "Lonesome In My Home"
Jimbo Mathus - "A Town With No Shame"
R.L. Burnside - "Old Black Mattie"
The Dixie Nightingales - "All I Need Is Some Sunshine In My Life"
Traditional Performed by Samuel L. Jackson and Jason Freeman - "Black Snake Moan"
Traditional Performed by S. Epatha Merkerson - "Balm In Gilead"
Paul "Wine" Jones - "My Baby Got Drunk"
Samuel L. Jackson, Kenny Brown and Cedric Burnside - "Alice Mae"
Traditional Performed by Samuel L. Jackson, Kenny Brown, Luther Dickinson and Cedric Burnside - "Stackolee"
Traditional Performed by Christina Ricci and Alvin Youngblood Hart - "This Little Light Of Mine"
North Mississippi Allstars - "Mean Ol' Wind Died Down"