Ode

51 mins
"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.

Kevin Poole

Billy Joe

Jim Wiley

Reverend Hartley

Bonnie Johnson

Mrs. Hartley

Bill Mooney

Father McGuire

Matt Neal

Fair Guy

Martin Baucom

Rude Passerby

Michelle J. Moore

Billie Joe's Mom

Terry Bisson

Narrator (voice)

Herman Raucher

Original Story

Kelly Reichardt

Director of Photography

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