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Plot. Eve Batiste, age 10, lives in a prosperous Creole-American community in Louisiana with her younger brother Poe and her older sister Cisely in the 1960s. Their parents are Roz and Louis, a well-respected doctor in Louisiana's African American community who claims descent from the French aristocrat who founded the town of Eve's Bayou.
Apr 12, 2017 · Named after her ancestor, Eve Batiste ( Jurnee Smollett-Bell) is the second child of the Batistes, and we observe their prominent social status in the town as a party is being held in their big, lovely mansion.
Nov 7, 1997 · With Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield. What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father, and womanizer Louis Batiste is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies, and mystic forces.
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- Drama
- Kasi Lemmons
- 1997-11-07
Oct 25, 2022 · It is said that when General Jean Paul Batiste was stricken with cholera, his life was saved by the powerful medicine of an African slave woman called Eve. In return for his life, he freed her and gave her this piece of land by the bayou.
The story is told through the eyes of Eve Batiste, played with fierce truthfulness by Jurnee Smollett. Her family is descended from a slave, also named Eve, who saved her master's life and was rewarded with her freedom and with 16 children.
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May 13, 2022 · When it came to search for a child actor to carry the film as the precocious middle child Eve Batiste, days before shooting, Lemmons knew she found her in then 10-year-old actress Jurnee...
