Ode

Ode — Plot

"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.

• Release date
• January 4, 2010
• Runtime
• 51 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Kelly Reichardt

Ode — Cast

H

Heather Gottlieb Bobbie Lee

K

Kevin Poole Billy Joe Jon Wurster James

J

Jim Wiley Reverend Hartley Bonnie Johnson Mrs. Hartley

B

Bill Mooney Father McGuire

M

Matt Neal Fair Guy

M

Martin Baucom Rude Passerby