Christina Ricci attends the Giffoni Festival in Italy

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In rural Mississippi, Lazarus, a former blues musician who survives by truck farming, finds a young girl nearly beaten to death near his home. She’s the white-trash town tramp, molded by a life of sexual abuse at the hands of her father and verbal abuse from her mother, who seems to delight in reminding Rae of her mistake in not aborting her. Lazarus, who is also facing personal crisis at the dissolution of his marriage, nurses Rae back to health, providing her with gentle, fatherly advice as well as an education in blues music. Rae’s boyfriend, Ronnie, goaded by the man who nearly beat Rae to death, misunderstands the relationship between Lazarus and Rae, and vows to kill him. Lazarus, exhibiting a street-smart understanding of violence and its motives, calls Ronnie’s bluff, senses that he is as troubled as Rae, and becomes a guiding force in the young couple’s resurrection. courtesy of IMDb

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Christina Ricci is Engaged to Actor Owen Benjamin

Pixie-sized starlet Christina Ricci has happy news: she's engaged!

The 29-year-old will wed her boyfriend of several months, Owen Benjamin, also an actor. They met on the set of their upcoming movie, All's Faire in Love.

Benjamin and Ricci have become a paparazzi favorite, as their difference in height makes for some cute photo-ops. She's 5'1"; he's 6'6". Maybe she'll nab herself a pair of those crazy Nina Ricci stilt boots for the wedding - they do add an extra eleven inches of height. Story from: zimbio.com.

See a Full Gallery Of Christina and Owen HERE.

Christina Ricci hopeless in the kitchen - stuff.co.nz

Actress Christina Ricci can only cook two things.The 28-year-old actress is so useless in the kitchen she has only just learnt how to do basic tasks, like boil pasta.

She said: "I can cook about two things. I can boil hot water for the only pasta I can make. I blame my career, actors work crazy schedules and we are away so often. I just don't the time to learn how to make stuff. But I need to, when you get back home after shooting there is always a great desire to create some kind of normalcy."

It was recently revealed Christina will play a crayon in a new movie. The 'Speed Racer' actress will voice Yellow in 'The Hero Of Color City', which follows a group of crayons as they fight an evil tyrant who threatens to rid their city of its colour and joy.

The movie will also feature 'Pineapple Express' actress Rosie Perez, chat show host Craig Ferguson and 'Igor' voicer Arsenio Hall.

STORY FROM: www.stuff.co.nz