Bayou Caviar

2018 American film

Eitan Gorlin
Cuba Gooding Jr.

Produced by

Anjul Nigam
Steve Straka
Hilary Shor
Eric Colley

Starring

Famke Janssen
Richard Dreyfuss
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Lia Marie Johnson
Ken Lerner

CinematographyWedigo von SchultzendorffEdited byKeith ReamerMusic byJeffery Alan Jones

Production
companies

Brittany House Pictures
Quixotic Road
Detente613
Fireshoe Productions
Major Motion Pictures

Distributed byGravitas Ventures

Release date

October 5, 2018 (2018-10-05)^[1]

CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Bayou Caviar is a 2018 American neo-noir drama film directed by Cuba Gooding Jr. and written by Eitan Gorlin and Gooding. The film stars Gooding, Famke Janssen, Richard Dreyfuss, with Gregg Bello, Ken Lerner, Sam Thakur, Katharine McPhee, and Lia Marie Johnson in supporting roles. Russian hockey player Alexei Kovalev makes an appearance in the film. This film marks Gooding's first time as director.

Plot

Rodney (Gooding) is a former boxing star reduced to working as a bouncer, a job that eventually brings him into contact with Yuri (Dreyfuss), a Russian gangster whose preferred method for the disposal of dead bodies is in the form of "bayou caviar," which is food left to the alligators in the Louisiana swamps.

Rodney’s task is to provide compromising evidence on the son-in-law of the gangster’s business associate, a blackmail scheme that if executed properly, could rebound to the benefit of several people, including a fame-hungry teenager Kat (Lia Marie Johnson) and lesbian photographer Nic (Famke Janssen).

Cast

Cuba Gooding Jr. as Rodney Jones
Famke Janssen as Nic
Richard Dreyfuss as Yuri
Gregg Bello as Isaac
Ken Lerner as Shlomo
Sam Thakur as Rafi
Katharine McPhee as Shelly
Lia Marie Johnson as Kat
Kedrick Brown as Emmanuel Johnson
James Moses Black as Sasha

Filming

Principal photography began on June 19, 2017.^[2]

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 20% of five critics gave the film a positive review.^[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 36 out of 100, based on four critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".^[4]

References

^ "Cuba Gooding Jr. Plays a Boxing Champion in Trailer for His Directorial Debut Bayou Caviar".
^ Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Helming Debut Is ‘Louisiana Caviar’; Richard Dreyfuss & Famke Janssen Star
^ "Bayou Caviar". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
^ "Bayou Caviar Reviews". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved May 11, 2023.