Ode

"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.

Cast

Heather Gottlieb

Played Bobbie Lee
Kevin Poole

Played Billy Joe
Jon Wurster

Played James
Jim Wiley

Played Reverend Hartley
Bonnie Johnson

Played Mrs. Hartley
Bill Mooney

Played Father McGuire
Matt Neal

Played Fair Guy
Martin Baucom

Played Rude Passerby
Michelle J. Moore

Played Billie Joe's Mom
Terry Bisson

Played Narrator (voice)

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