Ode to Billy Joe
1976 · 1h 45m · Drama, Romance · United States of America · Rated PG (US)
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.
Directed by
Max Baer Jr.Written by
Herman Raucher6.1Smart score
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based on song, poem or rhymebridgecoming of agedeep southdollgay themejumping off a bridgemississippi riversexual frustrationsexual identityteen suicideyoung love
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