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Ode

68 %|Jun 9, 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.

Featured Crew

Kelly Reichardt
Director
Herman Raucher
Original Story
Kelly Reichardt
Writer
Kelly Reichardt
Director of Photography
Susan A. Stover
Producer
Will Oldham
Music
Philip Harrison
Editor

Cast

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Kevin Poole
Billy Joe
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Jim Wiley
Reverend Hartley
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Bonnie Johnson
Mrs. Hartley
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Bill Mooney
Father McGuire
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Matt Neal
Fair Guy
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Martin Baucom
Rude Passerby
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Michelle J. Moore
Billie Joe's Mom
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Terry Bisson
Narrator (voice)