Eve's Bayou
145 reviews
Drama
1h 49m
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.
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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.
- DirectorKasi Lemmons
- Release7 November 1997
- GenreDrama
- Duration1h 49m
- Budget$6,000,000
- Revenue$14,842,388
- Rate145 reviews
- Productions
Trimark Pictures, Addis-Wechsler Productions, ChubbCo Film
Cast

Jurnee Smollett
Eve Batiste

Meagan Good
Cisely Batiste

Samuel L. Jackson
Louis Batiste

Lynn Whitfield
Roz Batiste

Debbi Morgan
Mozelle Batiste Delacroix

Jake Smollett
Poe Batiste

Ethel Ayler
Gran Mère

Diahann Carroll
Elzora

Vondie Curtis-Hall
Julian Grayraven

Roger Guenveur Smith
Lenny Mereaux

Lisa Nicole Carson
Matty Mereaux

Branford Marsalis
Harry

Marcus Lyle Brown
Hosea

Carol Sutton
Madame Renard

Victoria Rowell
Stevie Hobbs

Leonard L. Thomas
Maynard

Allen Toussaint
Proprietor

Billie Neal
Ghost of Original Eve

Tamara Tunie
Narrator (voice)
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