Ode (1999)

Drama

"Tallahatchie Bridge": With those two simple words, the powerful images of a lost innocence, a murky river and a mysterious suicide spring to mind. Scorning the demands of her overbearing family, Bobbie Lee Hartley and Billy Joe McAllister meet at their usual Choctaw Ridge trysting place and attempt to consumate their forbidden love. Ode attempts to reconcile modern moralites with a tradition-bound faith, and asks whether it's possible to commit a sin against a religion that won't even have you as a member.

Cast

Billy Joe
Reverend Hartley
Mrs. Hartley
Father McGuire
Fair Guy
Rude Passerby
Billie Joe's Mom
Narrator (voice)

Crew

Original Story
Director of Photography