Rated R for strong sexual content, language, some violence and drug use.
Genre
:
Drama
Aspect Ratio
:
2.35 : 1
Runtime
:
USA:115 min / USA:116 min
Company
:
Paramount Classics
Certification
:
USA:R / UK:15 / Singapore:M18 / Ireland:16
Filming Locations
:
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Color
:
Color
Language
:
English
Country
:
USA
Overwiew :The cathartic tale of a deaf, mute and blind girl, and her teacher who brings a ray of light into her world of BLACK. Teacher Student Relationship / Poignant / Mission / Mother / Fountain
Starring :Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, John Cothran Jr, Michael Raymond-James, S. Epatha Merkerson, Adriane Lenox, Kim Richards, Lavell Crump, Neimus K. Williams, Leonard L. Thomas, Ruby Wilson, Claude Phillips, Amy Lavere, Clare Grant, Jeff Pope, Charles Pitts, Willie Hall, John Malloy, TC Sharpe, John Still, Jared Hopkins, Tosh Newman, Cody Block, Benjamin Rednour, Carnell Pepper, David Chapman, Jolynne Palmer, Raymond Neal, John Pickles, Kim Justis, Cedric Burnside, Kenny Brown
USA Today - Claudia Puig : Though this film tries to convey a sense of campy fun, it ends up feeling off-putting and disturbing. more...
C
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold : Brewer's script is not well thought-out. more...
C+
San Francisco Chronicle - Ruthe Stein : Sexually charged. more...
B
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers : Offensive on multiple levels -- if only the plot had any levels at all... more...
C-
ReelViews - James Berardinelli : Ricci's performance is brave and effective - the most provocative in a career that has rejected Hollywood norms. more...
A-
New York Times - A. O. Scott : For all its willful, shaking-and-shouting intensity, Black Snake Moan never lives up to its soundtrack... more...
C
New York Post - Lou Lumenick : ...works as down-and-dirty diversion because of the highly committed performances of its two stars... more...
B
filmcritic.com - Sean O'Connell : ...the director exhibits extreme control over his hothouse situations, and finds kindness in the bawdiness of life. more...
B+
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum : ...be prepared to collapse into a hoot and a howl of hilarity at all the wrong moments... more...
C-
E! Online - Caroline Kepnes : ...offers that rare cinematic escape into another dimension. more...
A-
Chicago Tribune - Michael Phillips : It fundamentally does not work... more...
C-
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert : ...the oddest, most peculiar movie I've seen about sex and race and redemption in the Deep South. more...
B
Boston Globe - Wesley Morris : ...exploitative, but it's also electric. more...
B-
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Eleanor Ringel Gillespie : Ricci sizzles, the movie less so. more...
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