Ode

Overview

"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

Cast

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Heather Gottlieb

Bobbie Lee

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Kevin Poole

Billy Joe

Jon Wurster

James

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Jim Wiley

Reverend Hartley

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)