Movie Night! Blue Bayou

The film centers on Antonio LeBlanc, a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou. He's married to the love of his life, Kathy, and raising his stepdaughter, Jessie. Struggling to make a better life for his family, he must soon confront the ghosts of his past after learning that he could be deported from the only country he's ever called home.

Blue Bayou is a 2021 American drama written and directed by Justin Chon. The film stars Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O’Brien, Linh Dan Pham, Sydney Kowalske, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Emory Cohen.

The host for the evening is Al Heavener, a Jefferson Parish Library employee and film aficionado. He will discuss the movie before it screens. The film lasts one hour 57 minutes. It debuted at Cannes in 2021.