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Summary: Better every time!!
Review: I "LOVE" this movie. The acting, the story, the directing is amazing!!! One of my most favorite movies not to mention Sam Jackson! Highly recommend.
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Summary: My only 5 star reveiw!
Review: I don't ever give 5 stars because can any movie or music be perfect? This one is. I first saw this movie in 1997 and have veiwed this movie over 2 dozen times since then. One reason is because I love it so much the other is because just when I think I have the answer to this story, I notice a scene or a line that makes me change all my previous notions. No other film I've ever seen has ever done that. The replay value of this movie is un unending. There is a mystery in this film but it's a perfect mystery that doesn't beg for you to solve it, it just let's you believe what you wish until you scratch the surface that is. Now for my political rant: This movie should have won all kinds of awards including from the academy, but it didn't. That year was the year the academy saw fit to recognize Independent films, remember? I wonder why they would do that, whatever could be the reason???
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Summary: Masterpiece of a Movie
Review: I don't know why this wasn't more popular. I didn't actually see it until several years after it came out in theaters, but when I did I was in awe. This is an amazing movie. There's nothing I can really point my finger to without dissecting all of the revealing scenes in the movie, but there's just something magical about it. You really feel like you're in this bayou with this family.Another plus is the positive, affluent representation of blacks, something that is often missing in movies. We need more Eve's Bayous to counter-act every How High, Pootie Tang, and Another Friday. For a first timer, Kasi Lemmons sure seemed to know what she was doing. One of my all-time favorites.
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Summary: outstanding
Review: I have just recently seen "Eve's Bayou" for the first time. I believe that is a must see movie. It takes you back to a time when magic and voodoo were really big and highly believed in. The performance of Eve (Smollett) almost stopped my heart, that little girl could really make you feel what she was feeling. And Cisely (Good) also did a wonderful job. I really cryed with her and my heart went out to her; she only loved her father. And Louis (Jackson) he made is character dispised, and I really hated him until the end when Eve found the letter that he wrote to Mozelle. Then I felt so sorry for him and Cisely. The whole cast deserves high regard for their performances.
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Summary: EVE
Review: I LOVE THIS MOVIE. IT WAS SAD WHEN I HAD FIRST SEEN IT. THE WAY EVE WAS TREATED WAS SO WRONG. IF U HAVENT SEEN THIS MOVIE THEN U SHOULD GO AND GET IT.
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Summary: One of the best movies I've seen.
Review: I thought the movie was absolutely fantastic, in its way that it had of sounding just like a very well-written novel. Jurnee Smollett played a most honorable role, and so did Samuel Jackson as her womanizing father. Yet the story was as mysterious as it was brilliant, which leaves us to question just how good is memory when it is recalled. I really enjoyed the movie, and found myself crying along with the characters in the many emotional scenes. These actors worked very hard and it showed in this masterpiece of a movie.
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Summary: Excellent Movie
Review: I thought this was an excellent movie for Sam Jackson, Debbie Morgan(Oscar worthy), and Lynn Whitfield. The DVD picture is Superb! However the sound quality is not too good. The movie audio is suppose to be Dolby Digital 5.1...however, most of the sound is from the center channel. I wish they would re-issue this movie and get the audio sound correct. This is too good of a movie for the sound to be MONO!!! That's why I rated it at 4 stars instead of 5. Overall it's a great movie that should be in your collection.
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Summary: I love this Movie
Review: I used TO watch this Movie all the time. It was my favorite movie. I don't know what happened to it though. It used to make me cry.
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Summary: Good but not great
Review: I was attracted by the title and description of this flick, but rather disappointed with it after all. The movies tries hard to create a witchy "vodoo in the bayou" atmosphere, but there just wasn't enough to spook me. The story revolves around 10 year old Eve, who early in the film accidentally witnesses her philandering father (Sam Jackson) giving it to the wife of a family friend during a lull in a party. This rattles her for life and starts her on a path of psychic-to-physical vengeance, helped along by her vodoo-enabled aunt and ultimately getting in too deep with the real voodoo heavy of the town, played by the still-foxy Diane Carrol (the best performance I thought). Sam J. won't reform, is doing it with half the women in town, and his martyred wife carries on stoically with the support of the town women, simultaneously trying to fight the evil powers of fate by deciding to lock her kids in the house after a voodoo prediction. Also simultaneously, Eve's older sister (Eve's ally in the secret) decides to go into a big depression after a confused father-daughter petting incident. To me this was a case of "lots of threads but none of them followed strong enough" (the black widow aunt with 4 dead husbands; the father-daughter intrigue; the Eve death-wish; the father and his women... what else?) The characters are all pretty real, and a great black cast, but the story just wasn't strong enough for me. The photography was very interesting though, with lots of cool black 'n white montages thrown in. Rating: story=3, photog=5.
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Summary: Sometimes a soldier falls on his own sword...
Review: It's too bad that this movie did not get the recognition that it deserved when it came out in 1997. Kasi Lemmons' amazing directorial debut "Eve's Bayou" is a haunting and captivating tale of a upper middle-class black creole Louisiana family in the early 1960s who has a lot of baggage. In this family is a smart, 10 year old girl named Eve who has "the gift of sight". The bayou is the perfect setting for this story that deals with infidelity, family secrets, the mysteries of voodoo, magical curses and tragedy.
This Southern family has issues, without a doubt: the father, who is the town doctor, continuously cheats on his wife; the mother - beautiful and classy, protective of her children but distant, knows her husband is unfaithful but is in denial about it; Eve herself has witnessed her father being unfaithful to her mother and is forever haunted by the images that she has seen; the aunt, a widow several times over, who is also psychic like her niece, is hesitant to fall in love with a mysterious stranger that passes through because she is certain that he will meet the same fate as her former husbands; Eve's older sister who adores her father, but something happens that destroys her trust in him....and this is what triggers a cataclysmic chain of events.
The cast is superb - with Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan (who is EXCELLENT - this is her best role yet) and Diahann Carroll in a less than glamourous role as the town voodoo priestess - but Jurnee Smollett as Eve is the one who really steals this film. Meagan Good, who plays Eve's older sibling, is also very good and effective in her role as Cisely. I've seen this movie on cable many times over the years, but I still felt like I had to own it on DVD. I wish I could give it ten stars, I love it that much. Buy this, you will not be sorry!
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