Eve's Bayou

Media:	VHS Tape
Directed by:	Kasi Lemmons
Starring:	Jurnee Smollett, Samuel L. Jackson
Release date:	08 September, 1998
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Eve's Bayou

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Feel The Heat

Eve's Bayou is a spectacular movie. The color and scenery is wonderful and the people are elegant and troubled. Even the character's names stir up visions of dark swamp water and sultry heat. The story is told and seen through the eyes of little Eve Batiste played by a wonderful young actress named Jurnee Smollett. Eve takes us deep into her world which is filled with colorful characters and complex personalities.Diahann Carroll is fabulous as the old fortune teller Elzora with her insane laughter. Debbi Morgan as Aunt Mozelle Batiste Delacroix is something to behold. Aunt Mozelle has promised her family that she will not use her "second sight" to tell fortunes, but neighbors won't let her keep her promise. They seek her out to find missing husbands anyway. Lynn Whitfied as the manor born wife is beautiful and poised as she tries to keep her family together in spite of her wandering husband (Samuel L. Jackson). Jackson is very sexy in this movie and his character has roving eyes as well as roving hands that don't stop even when he is caught in a compromising position by his youngest daughter, Eve. This starts a set of events that lead to the total destruction of an already deeply troubled family.Although this movie did not make history at the box office my guess is that it will become a cult classic. Years from now this movie will be viewed for what it is, a brilliantly produced film. You can literally feel the Louisiana heat from Eve's Bayou. Vannie

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Smoldering Family Drama

What a startling portrayal of black, creole life. A period piece, a family drama, and a story that resonates with young and old, black and white, male and female. It is a story of passion directed flawlessly by a little-known African-American, female director who deals with her characters openly and sympathetically. I won't bore or rob you with a summary. But, I will say this is one of the most captivating and overlooked movies of all time, and at least my time. Lynn Whitfield, Sam Jackson and the Smollett siblings are perfect. "Get out the damn tub," young Jurnee Smollet yells to her self-pitying, darker-colored sister, only to have her rear smacked by her psychically gifted Aunt. It's one of those scenes that is at once humorous and unbelievably adult and real. The movie is haunting as a ghost story, delicate as a love story (familial and passionate) and deft as a tale of our power to enchant and be enchanted.

- Eve's Bayou

I love this Movie

I used TO watch this Movie all the time. It was my favorite movie. I don't know what happened to it though. It used to make me cry.