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Release Date: 23 January, 2001 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
Eve's Bayou Reviews
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Eve's Bayou is an incredible film about a family struggling to keep family together. Eve's Bayou is a town founded by a freed slave. Our heroine is named after her predecessor.
Eve's father, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) is the town's doctor and he fancies himself as a ladies' man. Her mother, Roz (Lynne Whitfield) chooses to turn a blind eye to his infidelities. Eve has an older sister and younger brother. But the most colorful is her Aunt Mozelle (Debbi Morgan). Mozelle has visions of things to come and people come to seek her help. When she has a vision it always comes true. She also has a curse. All of her husbands have died.
But reality hits this fantasy land first when Eve accompanies her father on a house call and it becomes evident to her that daddy was doing more than helping the sick woman. Then at a party Eve goes out to the shed and falls asleep. But she is awakened by her father with another woman, a woman with her own man.
Things continue to spiral out of control when Mozelle has a vision that a child is going to be killed by a train. Roz panics and keeps the kids confined to the house until the premonition comes true. In the process, Eve's older sister withdraws from the family but it it's not what everyone thinks.
This is a great film with breakout performance by Debbi Morgan (well sort of as she has been giving great performances for 20 years.) This was an Oscar worthy performance in an Oscar worthy film.
DVD EXTRAS:
Commentary from Kasi Lemmons, Amy Vincent (DP) and Terilyn Shropshire (Editor)
Short Dr. Hugo which is the basis of the film.
"I need to be a hero."
As this wonderful movie opens, we enter the world of Eve's Bayou, the Louisiana home of ten-year old Eve (Jurnee Smollett) and her charming, philandering father Louis (Samuel L. Jackson), her glamorous and superstitious mother, her psychic aunt (Debbi Turner), and her big sister who idolizes Daddy as much as Eve does. The narrator's opening line concerns a murder, and we wait for this terrible event to occur.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this movie. It drew me in and held me spellbound, with it's believable story and likeable characters. We really get to know and care about Eve's family and all their secrets. The actors are uniformly excellent, especially the young star, Jurnee Smollett. The director succeeds by constantly reminding us of the picturesque bayou setting and its unique community. As the story got closer and closer to the inevitable tragedy, I was almost holding my breath. It's an intense story about real, multi-layered people. Highly recommended.
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