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Where to Watch Ode to Billy Joe (1976) in the US
- 1976
- PG
- 1h 46m
- 6.6IMDb
- 44%Rotten Tomatoes
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What it's about
At last, we're given the answers to the questions raised by the haunting 1967 Bobbie Gentry song of the same title. Eighteen- year-old Billy Joe McAllister is in love with Bobbie Lee, but her father refuses to allow her to receive gentlemen callers before she's sixteen. In the Mississippi Delta, in a time before the boondocks had seen television and indoor plumbing, a young man's fancy turns constantly to thoughts of love. Billy Joe is no different in this regard and his persistence is making it difficult for Bobbie Lee to maintain her virtue (the dog-earred issues of "Torrid Romance" don't help either). Perhaps an indictment of the artificial conventions of society, the film demonstrates the tragic consequences of a young couple's first awkward grapplings with love and sex. As Bobbie Lee says shortly after Billy Joe's lifeless body is dragged from the Tallahatchie River, "What do I know of love... I'm only a child." Yet, there seems little doubt that what she feels for the dead boy is love. Could he have loved her so well?
Cast and crew
- Director
- Max Baer Jr.
- Writer
- Bobbie Gentry, Herman Raucher
- Starring
- Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Joan Hotchkis
Details
- Release date
- Jun 4, 1976
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Awards
- 1 nomination
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