Black Snake Moan

Black Snake Moan is an American film of Craig Brewer, left in 2007.

Synopsis

Lazarus lives only for one thing: blues. A few years earlier, he played of them every during the night in a bar of Tennessee. But time passed, Lazarus married, divorced, and now saw with for only partner an anger as desperate as self-destroying. But one morning, he discovers on the edge of a road an young girl with naked and covered half of bruises. It is Rae, a nymphomaniac from which the majority of the men of the corner profited. Lazarus then will try to bring back Rae in the right way. Unless it is not the reverse…

Data sheet

Title: Black Snake Moan
Realization: Craig Brewer
Scenario: Craig Brewer
Production: John Singleton and Stephanie Allain
Executive producer: Ron Schmidt
Production companies: Paramount Pictures, New Deal Productions and Southern Cross-country race the Dog Productions
Budget: 15 million dollars
Music: Trevor Rabin
Photography: Amy Vincent
Assembly: Billy Fox
Decorations: Keith Brian Burns
Country of origin: the United States
Kind: Dramatic comedy, Musical
Lasted: 116 minutes
Comings out date: May 30th 2007 (France), March 2nd 2007 (the United States)

Distribution

Samuel L. Jackson: Lazarus
Christina Ricci : Rae
Justin Timberlake: Ronnie
S. Epatha Merkerson: Angela
John Cothran Jr.: The reverend R.L.
David Banner: Tehronne
Michael Raymond James: Gill
Adriane Lenox : Pink Woods
Neimus K. Williams: Lincoln
Leonard L. Thomas: Deke Woods
Ruby Wilson: Mayella
Kim Richards: Sandy
Claude Philips: Bojo
Jeff Pope : Batson
Amy Lavere : Jess
John Pickle: Arty
Clare Grant : Kell
Charles Pitts: Charlie
Willie Hall: Pinetop
John Malloy: Gene
T.C. Sharpe: Archie
John Still: Hermann
Tosh Newman: Conner
Cody Block: Bryan
Carnell Pepper : Melvin
David Chapman (II): Red
OJ Lynne Micrometer caliper: Ella Mae
Raymond Neal: Hershel
John Pickle: Arty
Jared Hopkins : The mechanic
Benjamin Rednour: The guard
Kim Justis: The waitress
Cedric Burnside: Itself
Kenny Brown: Itself

Around film

the turning of Black Snake Moan began on September 16th, 2005. It completely was held close to Memphis, Tennessee.
It is celebrates it bluesman Its House which one sees several times in the images of files which punctuate film.
the title, Black Snake Moan (in French: “The moaning of the black snake”), refers to a song of the bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson which recorded it in 1927. She is taken again by Samuel L. Jackson in film and is a personification of Lazarus to define: “This voice in my head (...), it calls me when I have the fever, that I find more the way of my house, wandering in the pines, disorientated…”

External bonds

Black Snake Moan on Internet Movie Database
Black Snake Moan on Allociné

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