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About
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.
Theatrical
Nov 7, 1997
Box Office
$14.8M
Budget
$6.0M
Return
2.5x
DVD / Blu-ray
Mar 25, 1998
Theaters
2
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
Trimark Pictures, Addis-Wechsler Productions, ChubbCo Film
Cast
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Eve Batiste
M
Meagan Good
Cisely Batiste
Samuel L. Jackson
Louis Batiste
L
Lynn Whitfield
Roz Batiste
D
Debbi Morgan
Mozelle Batiste Delacroix
J
Jake Smollett
Poe Batiste
E
Ethel Ayler
Gran Mère
D
Diahann Carroll
Elzora
V
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Julian Grayraven
R
Roger Guenveur Smith
Lenny Mereaux
L
Lisa Nicole Carson
Matty Mereaux
B
Branford Marsalis
Harry
M
Marcus Lyle Brown
Hosea
R
Ron Flagge
Vendor
S
Sharon K. London
Hilary
C
Carol Sutton
Madame Renard
V
Victoria Rowell
Stevie Hobbs
O
Oneal A. Isaac
Bus Driver
L
Leonard L. Thomas
Maynard
A
Allen Toussaint
Proprietor
