It's dodgy male fantasies a go-go in this slice of Southern gothic named after the Blind Lemon Jefferson song. Christina Ricci is Rae, Justin Timberlake her boyfriend who goes off to the Army. Before his pick-up is out of sight Rae is on the prowl.
She's not lovesick, she's luuuurve-sick.
Across town, Lazarus (Samuel L Jackson) is being abandoned by his wife. When Rae is found unconscious by the side of the road after another one-night stand gone wrong, Bible-bashing blues player Lazarus is just the fella to tie her to a radiator with a length of chain and watch her run around in her knickers till she's cured of her "itch".
Curiously, no matter how much writhing in the dirt Rae does, her underwear stays whiter than white.
Once the soap-powder commercial directed by the ghost of Benny Hill ends, the characters' backstories start to emerge, and it's here we glimpse what an impressive picture this could have been without the trimmings.
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