"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 (1999)
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Heather Gottlieb
Bobbie Lee
KP
Kevin Poole
Billy Joe

Jon Wurster
James

Bonnie Johnson
Mrs. Hartley
BM
Bill Mooney
Father McGuire
MB
Martin Baucom
Rude Passerby
MJM
Michelle J. Moore
Billie Joe's Mom