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Eve's Bayou(1997)
Status: Released
Date: 1997-11-07
63%
138 Votes
Time: 1h 49m
The secrets that hold us together can also tear us apart.
Overview:
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.
Languages: French, Haitian; Haitian Creole, English.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $6,000,000.00
Revenue: $14,842,388.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Addis Wechsler Pictures
ChubbCo Film
Movie: Eve's Bayou
Top 10 Billed Cast
Jurnee Smollett
Eve Batiste
Meagan Good
Cisely Batiste
Samuel L. Jackson
Louis Batiste
Lynn Whitfield
Roz Batiste
Debbi Morgan
Mozelle Batiste Delacroix
Jake Smollett
Poe Batiste
Ethel Ayler
Gran Mère
Diahann Carroll
Elzora
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Julian Grayraven
Roger Guenveur Smith
Lenny Mereaux
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