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Ode to Billy Joe(Movie, 1976)

1h 45min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
Ode to Billy JoeRating: 3.1/5 (with 1212 votes)
Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 American drama film, directed and produced by Max Baer Jr., with a screenplay by Herman Raucher, and starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor. It is inspired by the 1967 hit song by Bobbie Gentry, titled "Ode to Billie Joe." Made for $1.1 million, the film grossed $27 million at the box office, plus earnings in excess of $2.65 million in the foreign market, $4.75 million from television, and $2.5 million from video. However, reviews were mostly negative. Gentry's song recounts the day when Billie Joe McAllister committed suicide by jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge on Choctaw Ridge, Mississippi. When Gentry discussed the screenplay with Raucher, she explained she did not know why the real person who inspired the character of Billie Joe had killed himself. Raucher thus had a free hand to pick a reason. His novelization of the story, published the year of the film's release as a movie tie-in, used the same rationale for the suicide. ()
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About Ode to Billy Joe

Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual. One night, at a barn dance, he gets a little drunk and rather than going with the hired whores, gives into his desires and sexual relations with an unnamed man. The guilt causes him to run away, hide in the woods and eventually confess everything to Bobbi Lee who doesn't want to believe him only because she was enjoying the forbidden nature of their love. In the end, he cannot accept his sexuality nor can he hide behind Bobbi Lee and that's why he throws himself off the Tallahachee bridge.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Mississippi
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 2 languages: English (EN), Portuguese (PT)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 06/04/1976
Director: Max Baer, Jr.
Producer: Max Baer, Jr.
Screenwriter: Herman Raucher
Film Editor: Frank Morriss
Director of Photography: Michel Hugo
Composer: Michel Legrand

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:194504, Added: 04/24/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024