What is Resurrecting the Champ / Black Snake Moan about?

Name: Resurrecting the Champ / Black Snake Moan
Genre: Drama

RESURRECTING THE CHAMP, 2007, Yari Film Group, 111 min. Dir. Rod Lurie. Living on the streets of Denver, pushing a shopping cart piled high with all his worldly possessions, the man everyone calls “The Champ” (Samuel L. Jackson) knows he was not the greatest boxer to ever step in the ring, but at least he had a shot at it. Now he fights no one but cops and street thugs. Living in the shadow of his former self, this champ is down and halfway out when Denver Times sports reporter Erik Kernan (Josh Hartnett) finds him. BLACK SNAKE MOAN, 116 min. Director Craig Brewer helmed this controversial, highly unusual saga of redemption through trial by fire. When down-on-his-luck blues musician, Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson), finds severely beaten young woman, Rae (Christina Ricci) on the road outside his rutral home, he soon recognizes her as the town tramp. Lazarus not only nurses her back to health but chains her to his radiator in an attempt to cure her of her spiritual sickness.

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What is Resurrecting the Champ / Black Snake Moan about?: RESURRECTING THE CHAMP, 2007, Yari Film Group, 111 min. Dir. Rod Lurie. Living on the streets of Denver, pushing a shopping cart piled high with all his worldly possessions, the man everyone calls “The Champ” (Samuel L. Jackson) knows he was not the greatest boxer to ever step in the ring, but at least he had a shot at it. Now he fights no one but cops and street thugs. Living in the shadow of his former self, this champ is down and halfway out when Denver Times sports reporter Erik Kernan (Josh Hartnett) finds him.
BLACK SNAKE MOAN, 116 min. Director Craig Brewer helmed this controversial, highly unusual saga of redemption through trial by fire. When down-on-his-luck blues musician, Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson), finds severely beaten young woman, Rae (Christina Ricci) on the road outside his rutral home, he soon recognizes her as the town tramp. Lazarus not only nurses her back to health but chains her to his radiator in an attempt to cure her of her spiritual sickness.