Last night I watched the first film in my marathon, Eve’s Bayou. Eve’s Bayou was written and directed by Kasi Lemmons and released in 1997 (my birth year!) . The film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Meagan Good, Diahann Carroll, and Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Eve. The film follows a wealthy black family living in the Louisiana bayou in 1962 and the aftermath of Eve catching her father cheating on her mother.

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