Ode (2010)
"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.
Director: Kelly Reichardt
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Heather Gottlieb as Bobbie Lee |
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Kevin Poole as Billy Joe |
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Jon Wurster as James |
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Jim Wiley as Reverend Hartley |
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Bonnie Johnson as Mrs. Hartley |
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Bill Mooney as Father McGuire |
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Matt Neal as Fair Guy |
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Martin Baucom as Rude Passerby |
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Michelle J. Moore as Billie Joe's Mom |
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Terry Bisson as Narrator (voice) |
| Directing | Kelly Reichardt | Director |
| Writing | Herman Raucher | Original Story |
| Writing | Kelly Reichardt | Writer |
| Camera | Kelly Reichardt | Director of Photography |
| Production | Susan A. Stover | Producer |
| Sound | Will Oldham | Music |
| Editing | Philip Harrison | Editor |
