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Released
2006 · FILM

Black Snake Moan

A reclusive bluesman kidnaps a tormented young woman in hopes of saving her from self‑destructive compulsions, but his desperate quest for redemption forces both to confront the painful secrets that bind them.

Everything is hotter down south.

Directed by
Written by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
116 min
DramaMusic

Synopsis

A devout blues musician becomes drawn to a young woman who has endured childhood sexual abuse and is searching desperately for love, though she remains unable to find it.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Billy FoxShot by Amy VincentScored by Scott BomarDesigned by Keith Brian Burns

Box Office

2006 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.9M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$10.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Black Snake Moande
  • El lamento de la serpiente negraes

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