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Ode to Billy Joe

04 Jun 1976
105 min
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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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Robby Benson

Billy Joe McAllister

Sandy McPeak

Glenn 'Papa' Hartley

Glynnis O'Connor

Bobbie Lee Hartley

James Best

Dewey Barksdale

Joan Hotchkis

Anna 'Mama' Hartley

Terrance Goodman

James Hartley

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Becky Bowen

Becky Thompson

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Simpson Hemphill

Brother Taylor

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