Ode Overview
"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.
Ode Career and Cast Highlights
Key credits listed on this page include
Kelly Reichardt, Herman Raucher, Heather Gottlieb, Kevin Poole, Jon Wurster, Jim Wiley, Bonnie Johnson, and Bill Mooney.
