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Eve's Bayou
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.
1997 · Directed by Kasi Lemmons · 108 min · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
The secrets that hold us together can also tear us apart.
Crew
- Written by: Kasi Lemmons
- Cinematography: Amy Vincent
- Edited by: Terilyn A. Shropshire
- Music: Terence Blanchard
- Production design: Jeffrey Howard, Nelson Willis
- Produced by: Samuel L. Jackson, Caldecot Chubb
Cast
- Jurnee Smollett-Bell 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
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Haitian; Haitian Creole, French
- Studios: Trimark Pictures, Addis-Wechsler Productions, ChubbCo Film
- Budget: $6,000,000
- Box office: $14,842,388
- Themes: sibling relationship, parent child relationship, superstition, aunt niece relationship, menstruation, tavern, curse, all black cast, woman director, angry
On this film
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