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Hounddog (2007)

Posted By: arslankhan

Date: 2 Jan 2010 20:02:58

Nine-year-old Lewellen (played by a 12 year old Dakota Fanning) is growing up in rural Alabama in the 1950s. It is a depressing life as Lewellen is poor and motherless. She lives with her Grammie (Piper Laurie) and has a strained relationship with her daddy (David Morse) who works a nearby farm. Lewellen's only pleasure is playing with neighbor boy Buddy (Cody Hanford) and listening to Elvis. Lewellen's favorite song is "Hounddog" which she will perform for anybody at the drop of a hat. The only adult that seems to be truely concerned about her is Charles (Afemo Omilami), a black horse trainer at a nearby farm who gives her sage advice on music, snakes and life.
The situation changes when her father gets a new girl friend (Robin Wright Penn) which is later revealed to the audience to be Lewellen's dead mother's sister who has been disowned by Grammie for sleeping with Lewellen's father. Lewellen finds a connection with her aunt and asks to go with her when the woman decides to leave after being physically abused by Lewellen's daddy. At first her aunt agrees, but changes her mind and leaves Lewellen behind.
Lewellen's world is brightened when she finds that Elvis is coming to town to do a concert. However, her father is inexplicably struck by lightning. He survives, but the accident has turned him into a half-wit and he can no longer work. Without his income there is little chance of a ticket to see Elvis. Then Buddy tells Lewellen the local teenage milkman (Christoph Sanders) will give her a ticket if she meets them at the shed down by the river. When she arrives there, however, she is told the price of the ticket is her performance of Hounddog before the boys in the nude. She agrees, but the milkman takes things further and rapes her and leaves without giving Lewellen her ticket (This scene, involving beloved child-actress Fanning, made the movie very controversial before it was released. The scene as presented to the public, however, lasts only about a minute and shows only Fanning's pained face from her bare shoulders up).
The rape, the betrayal by Buddy, and her inability to get a ticket leave Lewellen sick and depressed until Charles convinces her that she cannot let the people who have given her this pain win. "Gotta always somehow make good outta what can poison you," he tells her. She recovers and runs into her disowned aunt (who Lewellen still does not know is her aunt). The aunt has come back for Lewellen telling her she has a room at her new house for the girl. Lewellen tells her aunt that she will go with her if she can get permission. Both her aunt and Lewellen know this is unlikely. When Lewellen approaches Grammie and her daddy, however, she sees that they have just killed a rattlesnake. She is just about to warn her father that Charles has taught her rattlesnakes can continue to strike even after they are dead, but suddenly decides not to. He is bitten and in the confusion she walks back to her aunt's car and leaves with her.

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