Bayou Caviar

Bayou Caviar
Bayou Caviar
Directed by	Cuba Gooding Jr.
Written by	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;
Cinematography	Wedigo von Schultzendorff
Edited by	Keith Reamer
Music by	Jeffery Alan Jones
Production; companies	Brittany House Pictures; Quixotic Road; Detente613; Fireshoe Productions; Major Motion Pictures;
Distributed by	Gravitas Ventures
Release date	October 5, 2018;
Country	United States
Language	English

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]