Watch Justin Chon and Alicia Vikander in the Blue Bayou trailer

Alicia Vikander (left) stars as “Kathy” and Justin Chon (right) stars as “Antonio” in BLUE BAYOU, a Focus Features release. Credit : Focus Features

An official selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival from award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and step-dad to their beloved daughter Jessie. Struggling to make a better life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past when he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.

The film also stars Mark O’Brien, Linh Dan Pham, and Emory Cohen.

Focus Features will release BLUE BAYOU in US cinemas on September 17, 2021. There is currently no UK release date.