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Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou

Drama · 1997

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

Movie details

Eve's Bayou

“The secrets that hold us together can also tear us apart.”

1997 Drama 1h 48m

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6.5 / 10

Community rating

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Kasi Lemmons

Written by

Kasi Lemmons

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Eve Batiste

Meagan Good

Meagan Good

Cisely Batiste

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson

Louis Batiste

Lynn Whitfield

Lynn Whitfield

Roz Batiste

Debbi Morgan

Debbi Morgan

Mozelle Batiste Delacroix

Jake Smollett

Jake Smollett

Poe Batiste

Ethel Ayler

Ethel Ayler

Gran Mère

Court is in session

Put Eve's Bayou on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.