Black Snake Moan

Christina Ricci plays a redneck whore – which is too bad because she USED to be smokin’ hot. Bummer. Her boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, goes off to war and leaves her behind to sleep with everyone in the town. She’s got some weird cough which I’m assuming means she’s got some sort of sickness. She goes to a town fair gets all drunk and looped up on drugs, sleeps with a couple people. Her boyfriend’s friend takes her home and tries to rape her. He gets frustrated, punches her in the face a couple of times and dumps her on the side of the road. Samuel L. Jackson picks her up and nurses her back to health (after he chains her to the house). At one point, he puts the chain over his shoulder and I couldn’t help yelling “JYD” really loud. Thankfully, I was alone. Christina and Samuel L. become friends and eventually JT comes home from the war and thinks Samuel L. has been working his lady. He’s wrong. This isn’t a great movie by any stretch, and there are some pretty simple reasons why this movie never made it big. But it’s not terrible. Trying to un-whiten “This Little Light of Mine” is impossible and should have been taken out of this movie, though.