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        <title>Black Snake Moan — Tough Love and a 40-Pound Chain</title>
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        <description>There are movies, and then there are films. Movies get made to make money, pure and simple, and other concerns &amp;mdash; acting, writing, the numerous and myriad processes of art &amp;mdash; are secondary to that. Films, on the other hand, are primarily intended to express a vision or tell a story of importance to the artist or artists behind the project, although they can and often do get tweaked along the way to improve their chances of making money. BLACK SNAKE MOAN, the most recent effort from writer/director Craig Brewer, is a film, and by Hollywood standards, a damn strange one.
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Our story opens with the not-so-subtly-named Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson), a former bluesman who has turned to raising vegetables and stewing over being abandoned by his wife for his brother. This would seem like a perfect time to bust out the guitar and write a couple new blues songs (or murder ballads), but Lazarus doesn&amp;rsquo;t turn to music, or God, like he once did.

On the white-trash side of town, renowned &amp;ldquo;loose woman&amp;rdquo; Rae (Christina Ricci) has drunk and doped herself into a tizzy after her beau, Ronnie (Justin Timberlake), ships off to be in the Guard. In short order, she gets used, abused, beaten and left for dead on the side of the road. Lazarus finds her and takes care of her, providing a safe place and medicine, but he quickly realizes that she needs more help than cough syrup and Band-Aids. Using his awesome blues powers in conjunction with the Bible, Laz decides some tough love, and perhaps (although he never calls it this) an exorcism, are in order. Then, he remembers the 40-pound chain he keeps in the barn&amp;hellip;</description>
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            <title>re: Black Snake Moan — Tough Love and a 40-Pound Chain</title>
            <link>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#831</link>
            <description>Excellent review...better than mine, but check it out any way at &lt;a href="http://coldleftovers.com" title="Cold Leftovers"&gt;Cold Leftovers&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <dc:creator>David Lay</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:26:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>re: Black Snake Moan — Tough Love and a 40-Pound Chain</title>
            <link>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#836</link>
            <description>i don't really like this movie, i love Samuel L. Jackson movies alot, but i didn't really like this one</description>
            <dc:creator>prince'ab</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:39:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>re: Black Snake Moan — Tough Love and a 40-Pound Chain</title>
            <link>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#991</link>
            <description>It was ok, although a deep movie, too deep even for my teenager to watch.</description>
            <dc:creator>jself75062</dc:creator>
            <guid>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#991</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:06:36 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>re: Black Snake Moan — Tough Love and a 40-Pound Chain</title>
            <link>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#1353</link>
            <description>I loved this moive .</description>
            <dc:creator>ralphespinoza</dc:creator>
            <guid>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#1353</guid>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:14:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>re: Black Snake Moan — Tough Love and a 40-Pound Chain</title>
            <link>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#1697</link>
            <description>i didn't like this movie at all.</description>
            <dc:creator>WAVELYN</dc:creator>
            <guid>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#1697</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:11:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>re: Black Snake Moan — Tough Love and a 40-Pound Chain</title>
            <link>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#1732</link>
            <description>loved it!</description>
            <dc:creator>tinkluvspan</dc:creator>
            <guid>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#1732</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:14:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>re: Black Snake Moan — Tough Love and a 40-Pound Chain</title>
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            <description>THIS ONE IS ON ITS WAY. I SHOULD KNOW BY NEXT WEEK WHAT I THINK OF IT. I CANT WAIT TO GIVE A REVIEW ONE WAY OR THE OTHER</description>
            <dc:creator>brokun1</dc:creator>
            <guid>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#2032</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:53:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <description>i finally got to watch this movie and it was really intense. it makes u look at certain illnesses in a different light. i like the emotional drama in it and usually i do not like these kinds of movies but i understood this one and stayed interested in it the entire time. very well done.</description>
            <dc:creator>brokun1</dc:creator>
            <guid>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#2244</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:11:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>re: Black Snake Moan — Tough Love and a 40-Pound Chain</title>
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            <description>this was a good movie. i couldnt take my eyes off the screen. didnt even want to pause it.</description>
            <dc:creator>needs50</dc:creator>
            <guid>http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/06/29/Black-Snake-Moan--Tough-Love-and-a-40-Pound-Chain.aspx#2342</guid>
            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:25:08 GMT</pubDate>
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