Eve's Bayou (1997)
Jurnee Smollett: Eve Batiste
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Quotes
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Poe Batiste : [Poe screaming upstairs] I hate her, I hate her! I wish she was dead!
Roz Batiste : Eve, what did you do to your brother?
Eve Batiste : Im going to push him out of a window if i dont get out of this house!
Roz Batiste : Eve!
Eve Batiste : Cisely has been in the goddamn tub for an hour!
[Mozelle slaps her on the butt]
Eve Batiste : You know that. She stayed in there for three hours yesterday
Roz Batiste : Fortunately there is more than one bathroom in this house.
Eve Batiste : Ain't that much dirt in all Louisiana. Get out of the damn tub!
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Eve Batiste : Mama keeps stabbing herself in the kitchen! Show her your hands, Mama.
Roz Batiste : I think you'd better hush...
Eve Batiste : And where Daddy? He's never home. He's supposed to be home sometimes!
Roz Batiste : Listen, you little ingrate. Your father works hard so we can have a house with four bathrooms!
Eve Batiste : Not every night he's working, I know he's not!
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Poe Batiste : [on a snake] Maybe it's just sleeping
Eve Batiste : [lifts it up] It's dead you little chicken
[snake suddenly flicks it's tongue at them both who drop it screaming]
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Eve Batiste : How do you kill someone with voodoo?
Mozelle Batiste Delacroix : Hmm, I almost forgot you was there. Stick some pins in a doll, perhaps. I really don't know. What made you ask that?
Eve Batiste : Nothing.
Mozelle Batiste Delacroix : Well, you must have been thinking something before you said it. What led you to that particular thought?
[Glances at Eve]
Eve Batiste : I don't know...
Mozelle Batiste Delacroix : [Expression becomes serious] Is there some you're angry with? Someone you want dead?
Eve Batiste : [pauses] I'm going inside.
[Turns to leave]
Mozelle Batiste Delacroix : [Stops Eve] No, I think you better tell me what's on your mind!
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Eve Batiste : [while dusting off the pictures of Mozelle's late husbands] Which one did you love best?
Mozelle Batiste Delacroix : I don't know, Eve. They was all different. Anderson was the handsomest man I had ever seen. Your Uncle Harry, he was the sweetest. And Maynard....Maynard loved me most of all. You know, when I was your age, before I ever did the counseling, I could look at people, complete strangers, and see their whole lives so clear. But when I looked at each of my husbands, I never saw a thing. That's how it always is. Blind to my own life.