Ode
"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.
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Writer: Kelly Reichardt
Cast
Heather Gottlieb
Bobbie Lee
Kevin Poole
Billy Joe
Jon Wurster
James
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)
