Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
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.
- Date of release
- 1976-06-04
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (37)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Max Baer Jr.
Casting
- Robby Benson — Billy Joe McAllister
- Glynnis O'Connor — Bobbie Lee Hartley
- Joan Hotchkis — Anna 'Mama' Hartley
- Terence Goodman — James Hartley
- Sandy McPeak — Glenn 'Papa' Hartley
- James Best — Dewey Barksdale
- Becky Bowen — Becky Thompson
- Simpson Hemphill — Brother Taylor
- Rebecca Jernigan — Mrs. Thompson
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