Stark, real and torrid. Can you hear the moan!

Rating: 8/10 (30 June 2007)

In two words...hot damn! This scorching drama is derived from a 1927 song by Blind Lemon Jefferson. Lazuras(Samuel L. Jackson)is a God-fearing former blues musician, who is bitter and broken from a cheating wife. His soul seems lost in his crop of butter beans. One fateful day, he finds the town nymphomaniac Rae(Christina Ricci)half naked and beaten unconscious on the side of the road. He takes her home to nurse her her back to health. The panties and crop top sex addict is tied with a forty foot chain to the radiator for her safe keeping. Lazuras and his bible will be forced to combat Rae's darkest demons. Things almost become deadly when Rae's husband Ronnie(Justine Timberlake)returns early from the Army.
Jackson learned to play the guitar for this role and really belts out some blues. Ricci softly sings a Sundy school song. And a doe-eyed blonde in panties is not required to sing well. Also heard are Bobby Rush, R.L. Burnside, the Dixie Nighingales and the Heartless Bastards. Jackson and Ricci are outstanding, deeply and very believable in their roles. Also in the cast: S. Epatha Merkerson(Law and Order), John Cothran Jr. and Michael Raymond-James.