Eve's Bayou

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Summary: Excellent Movie
Review: This movie is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It was mysterious and enjoyable. I thought Journee Smollett did an excellent job. I remember her tv show she did with her brothers and sisters called "On Our Own". This movie is highly recommended. I might just order it myself to add to my collection.

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Summary: Love this movie!
Review: This movie was sadly overlooked by awards that celebrate black films by Soul Food the movie (I like the series but the movie was overrated). Soul Food was a more commercial movie, it was backed by Babyface, and had your typical drama that normally pop up in black cinema (heck BET's Arabesque movies were more original and entertaining). But anyway in my opinion Eve's Bayou is apart of what I call the Prime Seven African-American Movies of all time. (Sounder-The Color Purple-Boyz in the Hood-Eve's Bayou- Malcolm X - Do the Right Thing- Beloved). Those are movies that stand out in there own right and where the black experience was shown in a powerful and convincing way. Also the performances are incredible. Debbi Morgan (even though in a supporting role) joins my list of the top six performances by a black actress: Cicely Tyson- Sounder, Whoppi Goldberg- Color Purple, Angela Basset- What's Love Got To Do With It, Halle Berry- Monster's Ball, Hattie McDaniel- Gone with the Wind, Debbi Morgan- Eve's Bayou. I just love this movie! Give it a chance. And if you like it, recommend it to your friends.

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Summary: Smoldering Family Drama
Review: What a startling portrayal of black, creole life. A period piece, a family drama, and a story that resonates with young and old, black and white, male and female. It is a story of passion directed flawlessly by a little-known African-American, female director who deals with her characters openly and sympathetically. I won't bore or rob you with a summary. But, I will say this is one of the most captivating and overlooked movies of all time, and at least my time. Lynn Whitfield, Sam Jackson and the Smollett siblings are perfect. "Get out the damn tub," young Jurnee Smollet yells to her self-pitying, darker-colored sister, only to have her rear smacked by her psychically gifted Aunt. It's one of those scenes that is at once humorous and unbelievably adult and real. The movie is haunting as a ghost story, delicate as a love story (familial and passionate) and deft as a tale of our power to enchant and be enchanted.