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| | Label: Lions
Salesrank: 148161
Released: November 7, 1997 |
| Our Price: $10.52 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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
Eve's Bayou Reviews:
sleeper 
2009-08-15 - i've always liked dark movies with a twist and something magical or abnormal happening in the plot. Eve's Bayou is exactly the kind of movie you'll fall in love with if you like mystery, suspense, and the supernatural in your films. Though it's not a popular film - which I blame TOTALLY on the advertising, or lack there of, its very well done with surprisingly good child actors in the roles, everyone was believable in their part. I would recommend this to anyone.
Good movie. 
2009-08-03 - This movie is rich with undertones and thought provoking scenarios and the acting is excellent. I enjoyed it as much this time as I did the first time and I am proud to finally add it to my movie collection. Definitely one that I will watch again and again.
A Masterpiece of Epic Poportion 
2009-07-06 - I won't bore you by repeating some of the wonderful and precise acolades you've already read attributed to this brilliant piece of African-American Cinema, but I will prose one question: Why weren't Jurnee Smolett or Debbie Morgan considered for an Academy Award nomination for their BRILLIANT & GROSSLY UNDERATED performances in this film? They were overlook but Hallies' questionable performance in "Monster's Ball" is the yardstick by which all future African-American female actresses will be measured by...It just doesn't seem fair.
I love this movie 
2009-06-13 - I saw this movie in Tyler Texas when it first came out. You never see it coming. Everyone in the theatre were making Ooh's and Ah's. It isa great movie
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2009-04-12 - I received my item on time and in advertised conditions, great doing business with you and will do again.
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