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Award. A Paramount Vantage production, BLACK SNAKE MOAN is produced by JohnSingleton and Stephanie Allain, who also produced HUSTLE & FLOW. Paramount Vantage is aspecialty division of Paramount Pictures.BLACK SNAKE MOAN stars Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S.Epatha Merkerson, John Cothran and Michael Raymond-James. BLACK SNAKE MOAN willopen on February 23, 2007 nationwide. The film is rated R, with an approximate running time of116 minutes.
ABOUT THE PRODUCTIONThe Moan of Love’s Torment“There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole.There is a balm in Gilead to save my sick, sick soul...”- AngelaFate can be a twisted sister when it comes to rescue, and when it comes to love’s torment,rescue can come in the pairing of the most disparate souls. Fate found that coupling in Lazarus(SAMUEL L. JACKSON) and Rae (CHRISTINA RICCI).“BLACK SNAKE MOAN is really about two very different people coming together toheal each other,” says Writer-Director Craig Brewer, “and it is a very strange set of circumstancesthat brings these two people together.”It is an audacious story and a phenomenal script that had Producer John Singletonwondering, “how in the hell we were going to get this picture made.” Singleton, who receivedAcademy Award® nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director for his bold andcontroversial BOYZ N THE HOOD, calls BLACK SNAKE MOAN “much more daring thanCraig’s other picture (HUSTLE & FLOW). It is certainly something people have never seenbefore.”But it bares Brewer’s indelible trademark of traversing the raw metamorphosis of deeplywounded people, hungry for a better life.“We’re all wounded in some way. We all have our weaknesses, our anxieties, our foibles,and the way we get through life is by that connection, to actually be connected to someone else,”says Producer Stephanie Allain, who championed the making of both Singleton’s BOYZ N THEHOOD and Brewer’s HUSTLE & FLOW. “Craig’s work allows us to put ourselves intosomebody else’s shoes. In the beginning, you may not relate to it. You may not want to relate toit. You may even feel a certain sense of judgment, hostility or negativity towards it, but by theend of the movie, you love these characters, and not only do you love them, you realize you arethem. It really is all about the power of being connected to someone else,” she says, “and in thiscase it’s Rae’s connection to Lazarus.”It is the story of Lazarus, who packed away his guitar playing, juke joint days, foundreligion and settled for the married life. “He put all his love into this woman and at the beginningof the story she’s leaving him,” says Brewer. She’s not just walking out the door; she’s leavinghim for his younger brother Deke. “Lazarus is an older guy, and it is breaking him apart. After
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