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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 9781588176905
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1588176908
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 18, 2003
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 14890
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: November 07, 1997
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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/25/2004 Run time: 108 minutes Rating: Ur
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Actress Kasi Lemmons made an auspicious debut as a writer and director with this delicately handled, wrenchingly emotional drama, hailed by critic Roger Ebert as one of the best films of 1997. Eve's Bayou begins with ominous narration: 'The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old.' From that point the story moves backward in time and memory to Louisiana in 1962, when a young girl named Eve (Jurnee Smollett) witnesses a shocking act on the part of her womanizing father (Samuel L. Jackson). But what really happened? And can Eve be certain about what she saw when there is more than one interpretation of the facts? Less a mystery than a study of deeply rooted emotions rising to the surface to affect an entire family, the film has the quality of classic Southern literature, with layers of memory unfolding to reveal a carefully guarded truth. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - It has so much promise, yet it fails to deliver...
I walked into `Eve's Bayou' with high expectations. One of my film snob friends (I can call him that, he's cool with it) said that this was one of the greatest ensemble pieces of all time, and while I wasn't really sure what all the movie was about and had really heard nothing about it, I took his word for it anyways and decided to give it a watch through.
Sadly, I think he was wrong; dead wrong.
I will say this for the movie; I actually thought that its premise was smart, to an extent. The final frames of the film are truly the most enlightening when in regards to the overall message of the film, and they are haunting to a degree, but getting to that moment was far from exceptional. The film focuses on a close nit family living in 1962 Louisiana. The film opens with Eve Batiste voice telling us that she killed her father when she was ten. Then the film takes us to the summer that took place and shows us all the events leading up to it. It all starts with young Eve witnessing her father in the arms of another woman and then spirals down from there. The film broadens from the subject of infidelity to eclipse Eve's entire family, including the very spiritual Mozelle Batiste Delacroix, Eve's Aunt.
The story told has its high points as well as many low points (especially when in regards to Mezelle's character) that take away from the overall impact of the film. I found my interested waning quite a bit throughout the film, wondering what all the buzz ... Read More
Rating:  - Secrets, Misunderstandings & Tragedy
When a young girl inadvertently sees her father in a clandestine moment, she is affected in many ways. When she confides in her older sister, her observations are dismissed. From there, we see a gradual decline of the family trust, as the secrets are maintained and the young girl turns to black magic, in the form of a voodoo specialist.
All the secrets emerge in a twisted fashion, against a backdrop of magical elements...And when the family ties are broken and tragedy strikes, nothing will ever be the same again.
Haunting film that depicts how family dysfunction can tear lives apart.
Rating:  - Review of Eve's Bayou
Superb writing, directing, and acting abound in this ensemble movie. Samuel L. Jackson and Lynn Whitfield lead the cast as husband-wife and parents who remain in love with each other but whose relationship is strained. But it is a wonderfully talented young Jurnee Smollett who is the real superstar. The movie develops through young Eve's eyes and combines family love and devotion, childhood and pre-teen conflict, with the devastating consequences (both inside and outside the family) of ongoing infidelities. Added to this are the mystery and mysticism of the setting--the Louisiana bayou back countryside and a powerful performance by Debbie Morgan as Eve's spiritualist aunt with her repeated man troubles and you have a not-to-be-missed movie. Kasi Lemons proves to be an outstanding up and coming director and it is too bad it wasn't deemed Oscar-worthy--especially Jurnee Smollett's performance.
Rating: - LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!!
One of my ALL TIME favorite movies ever made. Brilliant acting by the whole cast.
Rating: - It' great!
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