Ode to Billy Joe

What the song didn't tell you, the movie will.

Plot Summary

Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms ahead.

6.3 /10

1976

US

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