Black Snake Moan

“Everything is hotter down south.”

Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson), a God-fearing bluesman and farmer in Tennessee, finds Rae (Christina Ricci) beaten and half-conscious on the side of a road. He carries her into his farmhouse and chains her there, sure he can cure what drives her. Craig Brewer shot it in and around Memphis, and Rae's boyfriend Ronnie (Justin Timberlake) is out there somewhere, while a woman's body and a man's faith are both on the line.