Midnight Bayou

Midnight Bayou
by Nora Roberts [DVD Roberts]

Fun and quick to watch. Unlike most of the other TV-movie adaptations of Nora Roberts works, the main character in this one is the "guy" instead of the "gal". Jerry O'Connell (Sliders, Crossing Jordan, The Defenders) is a Boston lawyer, Declan Fitzpatrick, who is mysteriously drawn to a plantation manor outside of New Orleans, which he purchases to use as a home and an office for a legal-aid center he wants to establish in the post-Katrina world of the city. Lauren Stamile (Grey's Anatomy) is Lena Simone, a local restauranteur, and the granddaughter of Declan's new bayou neighbor, Odette (played by Faye Dunaway), a woman with insight into the mystic. As the story plays out, there's elements of reincarnation and possession, with flashbacks to generations ago. The contemporary setting is rich with Cajun accents, both visual and verbal, and the chemistry between O'Connell and Stamile is steamy. It's a complicated and twisty plot...one of the most complicated of all of the Nora Roberts Collection DVDs to-date. Enjoyable and atmospheric...I heartily recommend this one! [If you like this one, you may also enjoy he others in the Nora Roberts Collection (8 made so far!)] -- recommended by Scott C. - Bennett Martin Public Library
[Also available in audiotape, unabridged book-on-cd formats.]

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