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Article: Black Snake Moan.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
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- Video Business
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- May 7, 2007
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By Irv Slifkin
PARAMOUNT
Street: June 26
Prebook: May 15
> Outrageous premise and DVD-friendly stars guarantee that this down-and-dirty drama will clean up.
This drama/romance is set in small-town Tennessee, where the skimpily dressed Rae (Christina Ricci) is found beaten near the home of bluesman Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson), whose wife just left him for his brother. Lazarus ties Rae-a nymphomaniac whose boyfriend (Justin Timberlake) recently left for the National Guard-to a chain and sets out to teach her a thing or two about the right way to live in hopes she'll set herself straight. This contemporary equivalent of an ...