There was a time when Lazarus played the blues; a time he got Bojo's Juke Joint shakin' back in the day. Bitter and broken from a cheating wife and a shattered marriage, Lazarus' soul is lost in spent dreams and betrayal's contempt... until Rae. He takes her in after discovering her half naked and beaten unconscious on the side of the road, where she was left for dead. The God-fearing, middle-aged black man quickly learns that the young white woman he's nursing back to health is none other than the town tramp from the small Tennessee town where they live. Worse, she has a peculiar anxiety disorder. He realizes when the fever hits, Rae's affliction has more to do with love lost than any found. Abused as a child and abandoned by her mother, Rae is used by just about every man in the phone book. Refusing to know her in the biblical sense, Lazarus decides to cure Rae of her wicked ways. By unleashing Rae emotionally, Lazarus unchains his heart and frees himself.
Production Paramount Classics; New Deal Productions; Southern Cross the Dog Productions;
Cast Names Samuel L. Jackson; Christina Ricci; Justin Timberlake; S. Epatha Merkerson; John Cothran Jr.; David Banner; Michael Raymond-James; Adriane Lenox; Kim Richards; Neimus K. Williams; Leonard L. Thomas; Ruby Wilson; Claude Phillips; Amy Lavere; Clare Grant; Jeff Pope; Charles 'Skip' Pitts; Willie Hall; John Malloy; T.C. Sharpe; John Still; Jared Hopkins; Tosh Newman; Cody Block; Benjamin Rednour; Carnell Pepper; David Chapman; Jo Lynne Palmer; Raymond Neal; John Pickle; Kim Justis; Cedric Burnside; Kenny Brown; Son House;
Release Date 2006-12-09 (Austin Butt-Numb-A-Thon) 2007-01-24 (Sundance Film Festival) 2007-02-13 (Knoxville, Tennessee) 2007-03-02
Genres Drama; Music;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for strong sexual content, language, some violence and
drug use.