Black Snake Moan

(2006)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 1,008 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2006

Runtime: 116 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Craig Brewer

Cast: Кристина Риччи, Сэмюэл Л. Джексон, Джастин Тимберлейк, С. Ипейта Меркерсон, John Cothran, David Banner, Майкл Рэймонд-Джеймс, Адриан Ленокс, Kim Richards, Neimus K. Williams

Plot

A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.

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 lives a promiscuous life, molded by a past 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.