Black Snake Moan

Genre: Drama

Worldwide gross$15.0M

In rural Tennessee, 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.

🏆 1 win & 7 nominations total

Genres

Drama, Music

Director

Craig Brewer

Cast

Christina Ricci, Samuel L. Jackson, Justin Timberlake

Released

2 March 2007

Runtime

1h 56m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.9 / 10

Votes

69,008

Metascore

52

Rotten Tomatoes

66%

Box office

$9,396,870

Budget

$15,000,000

Edition

Base