"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.
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Cast
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Heather Gottlieb
Bobbie Lee
Known for
Walking and Talking
Kevin Poole
Billy Joe
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Kelly Reichardt
Known for
The Unbelievable Truth
Herman Raucher
Will Oldham
Known for
Old Joy
Wendy and Lucy
Susan A Stover
Jon Wurster
James
Also in
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Steven Universe
Philip Harrison
Jim Wiley
Reverend Hartley
Bonnie Johnson
Mrs. Hartley
Known for
Manhunt
The Last Song
Bill Mooney
Father McGuire
Matt Neal
Fair Guy
Kelly Reichardt Director · Herman Raucher Story Philip Harrison Editor
United States release January 4, 2010 · Produced in United States
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · June 9, 1999
Premiere · NewFest
United States · January 4, 2010
Limited theatrical · Esopus Space
Argentina
March 26, 2009 · Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Greece
November 10, 2001 · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Italy
September 11, 1999 · Premiere · Venice Film Festival
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