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.

• Kelly ReichardtDirector
• Kelly ReichardtWriter

• Heather GottliebBobbie Lee
• Kevin PooleBilly Joe
• Jon WursterJames
• Jim WileyReverend Hartley
• Bonnie JohnsonMrs. Hartley
• Bill MooneyFather McGuire
• Matt NealFair Guy
• Martin BaucomRude Passerby
• Michelle J. MooreBillie Joe's Mom
• Terry BissonNarrator (voice)