Angela Bassett
Ruby Delacroix
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Dec 1, 2001 · Ruby's Bucket of Blood: Directed by Peter Werner. With Angela Bassett, Kevin Anderson, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jurnee Smollett. A Louisiana juke joint owner loses her star entertainer and hires a white singer to fill in.
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- Drama, Music
- Peter Werner
- 2001-12-01
Ruby's Bucket of Blood ★★½ 2001 (PG-13) Life's not easy for Ruby Delacroix (Bassett), the sultry owner of a bayou roadhouse, colorfully called the “Bucket of Blood,” especially since she's a black woman in the segregated south of 1960.
Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a dark comic satire [2] [5] about a dimwitted, impressionable young busboy at a Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat and covers its body in clay to hide the evidence.
It's 1961 in Chacahoula, Louisiana, and Ruby Delacroix runs a waterfront honkytonk for her black customers. Ruby wants more from life, but right now she's played out. She has all she can handle with keeping up her juke joint, raising her impulsive young daughter, Emerald, and enduring her...
- Peter Werner
- Arnold Pinnock
Ruby's Bucket of Blood is a 2001 Showtime network television musical\drama movie starring Angela Bassett which aired on December 1, 2001. Plot. A Louisiana juke joint owner loses her star entertainer and hires a white singer to fill in. Cast. Angela Bassett as Ruby Delacroix. Kevin Anderson as Billy Dupre. Brian Stokes Mitchell as Earl Delacroix.
Ruby's Bucket of Blood - Full Cast & Crew. In 1960s Louisiana, the owner (Angela Bassett) of a popular bayou juke joint deals with a teen daughter, a wandering husband and her attraction...
In 1961, in a Louisiana backwater, Billy Dupree, a white singer (played by Broadway's Kevin Anderson) lands a gig at Ruby's joint, whose clientele is black, when she suddenly needs a replacement act. Angela Bassett is Ruby, one tough cookie, who inexplicably doesn't realize her own sexy beauty.
