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Where to Watch Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
What the song didn't tell you, the movie will.
Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms ahead.
RomanceDrama 105 min 6.1/10 from 33 votes
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Cast
- Robby Benson as Billy Joe McAllister
- Glynnis O'Connor as Bobbie Lee Hartley
- Joan Hotchkis as Anna 'Mama' Hartley
- Terence Goodman as James Hartley
- Sandy McPeak as Glenn 'Papa' Hartley