| | | "To Save His Soul, He Must Save Hers."
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, French, Spanish
When ex-blues musician Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson) finds the town nymphomaniac Rae (Christina Ricci) left for dead on the side of the road, he vows to nurse her back to health...and cure her of her wickedness. Until then, she'll be chained to the immovable radiator in his home. But Lazarus has demons of his own: his wife just left him for his own brother. While Lazarus and Rae struggle to fix their broken lives, the situation threatens to explode as Rae's boyfriend Ronnie (Justin Timberlake) - a roughneck soldier just back from Iraq - comes searching for his missing lover.
"...[an] atmospheric and persistently intriguing film." Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
"It's beautifully shot...and features a terrific performance by Ricci..." Ken Fox, TV Guide
"A gorgeous, life-affirming movie." M.E. Russell, Portland Oregonian
"...a trip to that unfamiliar territory well worth tagging along on..." Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
"A wild and sweet little picture about sex, redemption and music..." Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
"A roiling, boiling mix of blaxploitation, sexploitation, Tennessee Williams and the Tennessee outback." Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
"This movie is crazy, but the insanity is electric." Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS FEBRUARY 23, 2007Christina Ricci plays a hopeless nymphomaniac in this controversial film from HUSTLE & FLOW director Craig Brewer. Samuel L. Jackson is a former bluesman placed in charge of her rehabilitation.
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | This Is An HD-DVD Made For HD-DVD Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Black Snake Moan - DVD By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 6/15/2007 3:34 PM | |
Such an unfortunate title for this interesting movie about kindred spirits on a slow, low rumble to personal salvation. Yet for Memphis-bred filmmaker Craig Brewer, Black Snake Moan represents more than your conventional character study. It is a suspension bridge stretched over the dreaded sophomore slump that swallows far too many promising young directors these days.
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| Black Snake Moan - DVD Review By: Daniel Solomon - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 6/29/2007 9:21 PM | | It is the fate of a film this smart, well written and well acted to remain unseen by the public. Black Snake Moan is a tough sell for a Friday night crowd. No movie this year has dealt with race more deftly, but just the hint of controversy is enough to keep some away. Then there is the sex, the nudity, the young woman/older man thing. I say, whatever. If you skip Black Snake Moan because of that stuff, then you will be missing out on Samuel L. Jackson's best performance to date, in a film that is at times the funniest and most interesting I've seen in ages. ...read the full review |
| Black Snake Moan - DVD Review By: Rebecca Wright - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 8/1/2007 2:00 PM | | There’s no doubt about it, some movies just make me flat out uncomfortable. When I saw the poster for Craig Brewer’s (Hustle & Flow) drama Black Snake Moan, with a scantily clad Christina Ricci being held in chains by Samuel L. Jackson, I had little desire to see the picture. The tagline, “Everything is hotter down south,” made me think of some sort of trashy exploitation flick with better actors than usual. Instead, Black Snake Moan turned out to be a flawed character study about abuse, redemption, and the power of the blues....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 6/26/2007 |
| Running Time: 115 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 13003 | | UPC: 00097361300306 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Film Comment
"[Ricci is] the white-hot focal point of Brewster's loud, brash, encompassing vision of the soul's dark night survived, peering into the dawn." 01/01/2007 p.72-73Premiere
"The blues here plays the role of an elemental force that can summon our deepest fears and rankest desires....[A] provocative picture..." 03/01/2007 p.44-45 Box Office
"[I]t's a film filled with sly pleasures....It marks Brewer as a much more interesting filmmaker..." 03/01/2007 p.58 USA Today
3 stars out of 4 -- "The film is carried to significant degree by Samuel L. Jackson....The new lean/mean Ricci may remind you of Susan Sarandon." 06/29/2007 p.10E Ultimate DVD
4 stars out of 5 -- "Sweaty, dirty and grimy it may be, just like the music that powers it, but underlying BLACK SNAKE MOAN is a rather sweet story." 06/01/2007 p.110 Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
I had never really heard many half-snorts before. Snorts, yes, and silence. But what do you make of an audience that has no idea how to react? Black Snake Moan is the oddest, most peculiar movie I've seen about sex and race and redemption in the Deep South. It may be the most peculiar recent movie ever...The performances are very good: Hell-bent for leather, and better than the material deserves, there is much hysteria and snot...I love the way that both Samuel Jackson and Christina Ricci take chances like this, and the way that Brewer creates characters of unbelievable forbearance, like Ronnie, who is in a more or less constant state of panic attacks and compulsion. And I like the understated way the rural Tennessee locations are used. You have never seen a movie like this before. - Roger Ebert
Variety 7 of 10
Mix Brigitte Bardot in "And God Created Woman" with Carroll Baker in "Baby Doll," sex it up times 10 and you have a notion of the effect of Christina Ricci in "Black Snake Moan." Part sleazy Southern exploitation pic about a wild firecat that would have made Erskine Caldwell blush, part blues-infused "Pygmalion" story about the tramp's reformation at the hands of an older black man, Craig Brewer's follow-up to his 2005 Sundance winner "Hustle & Flow" probably will find its most eager audience among college-age guys hot to ogle the young star in some very raw action. - Todd McCarthy
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