The Story:
In rural Mississippi, Lazarus (Samual L. Jackson), a former blues musician who survives by truck farming, has recently had his wife leave him for his younger brother so he is battling his own demons.
Rae (Christina Ricci) the white-trash town tramp, who connects with Ronnie (Justin Timberlake) to fulfill her needs. Ronnie must report to his National Guard unit and leaves Rae all alone. Rae is not alone for long, because she is the town tramp with a powerful need to hook-up with a man. After a party, Rae is taken home by a friend who ends up beating her half to death and throws her on the side of the road.
The next day, he finds Rae, dumped on the road nearby his little farm, drugged, beaten and almost dead. Lazarus brings her home, giving medicine and nurses Rae back to health.
Rae spends the next 2 days in a nearly comatose state waking up only sporadically to fight her crazy dreams and try to climb onto anything rigid. Lazarus decide that in order to protect the girl from herself and possible exorcise her sex demons he should wrap a 40 foot chain around her and confine her to his house.
When her boyfriend Ronnie is discharged from the army due to his anxiety issue, he misunderstands the relationship of Lazarus and Rae, and tries to kill him.
Lazarus, exhibiting a street-smart understanding of violence and its motives, calls Ronnie's bluff, senses that he is as troubled as Rae, and becomes a guiding force in the young couple's resurrection.
Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, John Cothran Jr.,
Directed By:
Craig Brewer
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