Ode to Billy Joe
1976, Film, 106 min, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 64
What the song didn't tell you, the movie will.
Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms ahead.
Directed by Max Baer Jr.
Cast
- Robby Benson as Billy Joe McAllister
- Glynnis O'Connor as Bobbie Lee Hartley
- Joan Hotchkis as Anna 'Mama' Hartley
- Sandy McPeak as Glenn 'Papa' Hartley
- James Best as Dewey Barksdale
- Terence Goodman as James Hartley
- Becky Bowen as Becky Thompson
- Simpson Hemphill as Brother Taylor
- Ed Shelnut as Coleman Stroud
- Eddie Talr as Tom Hargitay
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