Ahhh – what can be said about the Pixie film starlett Christina Ricci? Her acting career started early – as she won over the screen in Casper and Adams Family – but matured into a screen roaster with more “mature” adult roles, beginning with her role as the troubled, sexually curious Wendy Hood in Ang Lee’s critically acclaimed The Ice Storm.
One of her finer performances were in The Opposite of Sex, as the acid tongued, mainipulative Dede, a delightfully loathsome girl who wreaks tabloid-style havoc on everyone she encounters. For her performance as Dede, Ricci was nominated for a Golden Globe and attained the unofficial title of the Sundance Film Festival’s 1998 “It” Girl.
Later films included Sleepy Hollow alongside Johnny Depp, Monster, and Prozac Nation (which featured her first on-screen nude scene).
In February of 2006, Ricci made a guest appearance as a paramedic in the ABC drama Grey’s Anatomy, for which she was nominated for an Emmy award.
Black Snake Moan – featuring Ricci
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Rae (Christina Ricci) is twenty-something white-trash girl from Tennessee. She has serious emotional issues that manifest themselves in an ugly, pathological nymphomania. When her boyfriend Ronnie (Justin Timberlake) heads overseas to serve in the army, her psychological problems come to head in a bender of drugs and sex. Ronnie’s supposed friend, Gill (Michael Raymond-James), drives Rae home with a view to taking advantage of her, but when she makes fun of his manhood, he bashes her and leaves her unconscious on back road.
Lazarus (Samuel L Jackson) is a black farmer and former musician whose wife has walked out on him to be with his brother. It’s one more torment added to the hell his life has become and he is headed down his own path of self-destruction until he finds Rae sprawled out on the road near his property. Nursing her back to health, he begins to suspect the abuse and neglect that caused her mental illness and she becomes his ‘project’ – and an excuse to ignore his own problems. He even goes so far as to chain her up in his house so she cannot continue in her self-harming ways.
From there, these two damaged souls begin an unlikely journey of healing, friendship and redemption. With the aid of Lazarus’ preacher friend RL (John Cothran Jr), they gradually face down the demons that have poisoned their pasts.
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