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Snakes in Movies   Tough Luck (2003)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is a twisty neo-noir crime thriller with a beautiful "snake lady" whose carnival act is an erotic dance with a large snake. A grifter named Archie (Norman Reedus) is hired to work for "Ike's Amazing Carnival" in Louisiana. He's hot for Ike's wife, the carnival's snake lady with the stage name Divana (Dagmara Dominczyk). A poster advertises "Her Sexellence Miss Divana and her 15 ft. Man-Eating Anaconda Snake." She tells Archie that she's from Romania, that she has nothing but her snakes, and she has a snake tattoo on her arm, but it's all a ruse. He's just a patsy and she's a femme fatale honeytrap who lures him into a series of swindles and double-crosses. Divana's snake act begins with some slow dance moves with lots of arm movement, then an assistant pulls off her red wrap to reveal a two-piece belly-dancer costume. He puts the large snake over her shoulders and then she writhes around with the snake, making everyone watching wish they were the snake. When he finds one of her snakes in his trailer, Ike (Armand Assante) complains that Divana is trying to kill him with a poisonous snake. Ike convinces Archie to kill her for 30 thousand dollars, but Archie colludes with Divana to fake her death then run away with him. Of course, nothing goes as planned and Archie is forced to go on the run, believing that he actually killed Divana. The snake is not poisonous (or venomous) and it's not an anaconda, it's an albino python, but it looks great on her and that's all that matters. Her act with a large albino python is reminiscent of Salma Hayek's more elaborate stage performance in "From Dusk Till Dawn."