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Eve's Bayou [VHS] [1998]

VHS ~ Samuel L. Jackson
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan
  • Directors: Kasi Lemmons
  • Writers: Kasi Lemmons
  • Producers: Bobby Rock, Caldecot Chubb, Cami Winikoff, Eli Selden, Jay Polstein
  • Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Momentum Pictures
  • VHS Release Date: 29 Nov 1999
  • Run Time: 104 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004D063
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,156 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk 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 womanising 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

Synopsis

A doctor and his wife host a party in their Louisiana home. As the party progresses their lives are changed forever as family secrets come out....

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Eve's Bayou - A Beautifully Compelling Tale, 9 Sep 2003
By Paul St Clair Terry "empiricist" (Berkshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a story which captures the magical innocence of childhood erupting into the confusion and intensity of early adolescence. The dramatic and tragic unfolding of the tale is muted by the vibrancy of the children and the film's stunning visual imagery.

Against a backdrop of the hauntingly beautiful swamplands of the deep South, the eponymous heroine tells the tale of her 11th year, growing up in the 1960s as the privileged daughter of an educated and literate black family with an older sister aged 14 and a younger brother. The two girls are the heart and soul of this rich and fulfilling tale. Both girls are precocious, stunningly intelligent and delightful.

Eve's father, played by Samuel Jackson, is the local doctor, ministering to his patients and seen as a something of a heart-throb by the womenfolk of the parish - a situation he seems incapable of not exploiting... Eve's mother, an intelligent and elegant woman who has the poise and antiseptic perfection of Jackie Kennedy, feels the pain and humiliation of her husband's suspected infidelities and the world of adult secrets increasingly invades the previously safe coccoon of the daughters' lives.

The elder daughter, on the threshold of womanhood, displays characteristic adolescent confusion and rebellion. Young Eve, after a rude insight into her father's peccadilloes, turns her mother's anguish and her older sibling's angst into a burning but concealed cause, with tragic consequences.

It is the women who dominate this film: the performances of the four female leads, the daughters, the mother and the father's much troubled sister, are subtle, powerful and finely wrought. The drama and characterizations have the quality and intensity of a stage play.

Peppered in with this emotionally heady plot of love, hate, disappointment and betrayal is a mix of wild superstition, inherited psychic powers and a hinted dark family history destined for tragedy.

This is a film I strongly recommend - it is ultimately uplifting, absolutely satisfying and a delightful story which will hold you captive through its beautiful telling.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "I need to be a hero.", 21 May 2006
By Kona (Emerald City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eve's Bayou [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
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 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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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!, 3 Aug 2007
This review is from: Eve's Bayou [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
I was soo looking forward to Eves bayou, it reads on here like it would be interesting & alot of people seem to think so...... well i am not one of them!!!!!!!!! DO NOT BUY OR RENT SAVE YOUR PENNIES........ film was drab and very, very predictable! was slow, boring & had terrible 'twists' not anything like you think/hope/expect! cast choice is questionable to!
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