craig brewer grow up in tennessee and it be evident in his movie . forget the black guy on white girl action . it happen and but it isn not samuel l. jackson on christina ricci . more importantly this movie be about the value and culture of the people in this tennessee town . how they deal with divorce and abandonment and sexual abuse and psychological disorder . while shrink make million in the city of the north and midwest and west coast and the town minister and who also grapple with his own problem and become the counselor and mediator . it be a interesting concept and one that may not settle well with everyone . brewer show u the region he grow up in . yes it be still taint with racial problem and though bad problem exist in many metropolitan city . this be in the subtext and not the main plot of the story . people live a more simple lifestyle and yet life be still complex and excruciate . jackson and ricci do a fantastic job in this film . jackson the age former blue guitarist who eeks out a living on his small farm . his wife of 12 year leave him for his brother and so he spiral into depression . meanwhile ricci and justin timberlake have a last wild sexually charge night before he ship off to the army . ricci suffers from a childhood of sexual abuse and though that isn not reveal until later and her torment can only be quench by sexual foray with various boy ( black and white ) in the town . when ricci be beat up and leave for dead on the road near jackson farm and he find her and nurse her back to health . he believe it be divine intervention that this half naked white girl be leave in his care . he clutch his bible and prays for guidance . he refuse her sexual advance and instead treat her with dignity and respect and care . something few men in her life have ever do . she in time see jackson a a man of honor and moral and yet he also carry his own pain . he play his guitar and sings to her . yes it the blue and damn good too and with the minister counsel her and she slowly understand how to deal with her childhood sexual abuse . jackson and through ricci transformation and realize he must let his own pain heal . justin timberlake come back and discharge due to anxiety problem . a he search for ricci and who have be live with jackson during her recovery and he find out she have be promiscuous and unfaithful to him . he find her and jackson at a bar and where jackson have decide ( a part of his heal process ) to come out retirement and play the blue again . timberlake follow them home and confronts jackson and ricci . you will have to see the movie to get the rest of the story . should you decide to see this film and remember to look at it from the aspect of a foreign or independent movie . it be a slice of life and from a particular region of america that few of u get to see . it be interesting and reveal . it also show u that regardless of the color of our skin and we all have similar problem that can be fix with similar solution .