Eve's Bayou

Name: Eve's Bayou
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Released: 1997
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan

1997 · 109 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 12,123 VOTES · DIR. Kasi Lemmons

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,204 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:39 Woman: Memory is a selection of images

00:05:45 Merde!

00:12:42 How come you never dance with me?

00:16:47 What's wrong, rabbit?

00:20:05 (Louis laughs)

00:25:43 Speak your mind, my friend.

00:31:19 Hey, Cis.

00:36:14 who'd fallen out of a tree.

00:40:47 Sale menteuse!

00:44:36 - I have patients to see. - Louis...

00:49:39 What happened, baby? You all right?

00:52:25 - and he loves your mama. - I know.

00:56:11 And he shot Maynard in the chest.

01:00:49 let me tell you something.

01:04:17 I didn't get hit by anything.

01:09:15 And it's here that I'll plant seeds.

01:13:42 Excuse me? How much for this pineapple?

01:17:40 Mama knows about Daddy and Matty?

01:23:04 Nothing.

01:28:02 - $20. - 20...

01:33:42 Oh God.

01:38:52 No!

01:45:15 I knew Cisely could never sleep through a fight like that.

01:50:02 and the story is our past.

Cast & Characters

Samuel L. Jackson Louis Batiste Jurnee Smollett Eve Batiste Meagan Good Cisely Batiste Lynn Whitfield Roz Batiste Debbi Morgan Mozelle Batiste Delacroix Jake Smollett Poe Batiste Ethel Ayler Gran Mere Diahann Carroll Elzora Vondie Curtis-Hall Julian Grayraven Roger Guenveur Smith Lenny Mereaux

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,204

Dialogue density11.0 lines / min

First line00:00:39

Final line01:50:02

Production Record

DirectorKasi Lemmons

LanguageEnglish

Budget$6,000,000

Revenue$14,842,388

IMDb votes12,123