Ode to Billy Joe
What the song didn't tell you, the movie will.
19761h 45mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Romance
Overview
Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms ahead.
Keywords
- coming of age
- gay theme
- based on song
- poem or rhyme
- bridge
- mississippi river
- sexual identity
- doll
- sexual frustration
- teen suicide
- young love
- homosexual subtext
- deep south
- jumping off a bridge
- based on song, poem or rhyme
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 4, 1976
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Cast
- Robby Benson,Glynnis O'Connor,Joan Hotchkis,Terence Goodman,Sandy McPeak,James Best,Becky Bowen,Simpson Hemphill,Rebecca Jernigan
- Director
- Max Baer Jr.
- Writer
- Herman Raucher
- Producer
- Roger Camras,Mark Sussman,Max Baer Jr.
- Cinematography
- Michel Hugo
- Music
- Michel Legrand
- Budget
- $1,100,000
- Revenue
- $27,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0074995