Movie
Eve's Bayou
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1997-11-07
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Trimark Pictures, Addis-Wechsler Productions, ChubbCo Film
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Jurnee Smollett as Eve Batiste
- Meagan Good as Cisely Batiste
- Samuel L. Jackson as Louis Batiste
- Lynn Whitfield as Roz Batiste
- Debbi Morgan as Mozelle Batiste Delacroix
- Jake Smollett as Poe Batiste
- Ethel Ayler as Gran Mère
- Diahann Carroll as Elzora
- Vondie Curtis-Hall as Julian Grayraven
- Roger Guenveur Smith as Lenny Mereaux
- Lisa Nicole Carson as Matty Mereaux
- Branford Marsalis as Harry
Crew
- Kasi Lemmons - Director
- Kasi Lemmons - Writer
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