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Black Snake Moan is a truly dire melodrama set in the Deep South and directed by Craig Brewer. Fresh from Snakes on a Plane (and a visit to the barber to get his hair dyed grey), Samuel L Jackson plays a middle-aged farmer recently deserted by his much younger wife, who takes a promiscuous piece of trailer-park white trash (Christina Ricci) under his wing and chains her to a heavy iron radiator until she comes to her moral senses. The Pelion of embarrassment is piled upon the Ossa of implausibility until god-fearing Jackson has sorted out the lives of Ricci and her soldier boyfriend (Justin Timberlake) and got back to playing the blues.

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