Eve's Bayou

About 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.

Kasi Lemmons's Eve's Bayou is a 1997 drama film. Its themes are curse, baffled, angry, and anxious.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell stars as Eve Batiste, Meagan Good as Cisely Batiste, Samuel L. Jackson as Louis Batiste, and Lynn Whitfield as Roz Batiste. It runs 108 minutes and was released in November 1997.

The screenplay is by Kasi Lemmons. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel, Peacock Premium, and Peacock Premium Plus.

The Color Purple, Ramona and Beezus, and The Edge of Seventeen make useful companions to Eve's Bayou, all filed under cautionary. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 162 votes and it carries a R rating.