Ode to Billy Joe
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.
- Year: 1976
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Keyword: sexual identity, sexual frustration, mississippi river, bridge, coming of age, doll, based on song, poem or rhyme, young love, teen suicide, jumping off a bridge, gay theme, deep south
- Director: Max Baer Jr.
- Cast: Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Joan Hotchkis, Terence Goodman, Sandy McPeak, James Best