Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
June 4, 1976Release Date
Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
June 4, 1976Release Date


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Cast & Crew.

Robby Benson
Billy Joe McAllister

Glynnis O'Connor
Bobbie Lee Hartley

Joan Hotchkis
Anna 'Mama' Hartley

Terence Goodman
James Hartley

Sandy McPeak
Glenn 'Papa' Hartley

James Best
Dewey Barksdale

Becky Bowen
Becky Thompson

Simpson Hemphill
Brother Taylor

Rebecca Jernigan
Mrs. Thompson

Max Baer Jr.
Director / Producer

Herman Raucher
Writer

Roger Camras
Producer

Mark Sussman
Producer

Bobbie Gentry
Writer

Michel Hugo
Director of Photography

Frank Morriss
Editor
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Details.
Release DateJune 4, 1976
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 45m
Content RatingPG
Budget$1,100,000
Box Office$27,000,000
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Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 American drama film, directed and produced by Max Baer Jr., with a screenplay by Herman Raucher, and starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor. It is inspired by the 1967 hit song by Bobbie Gentry, titled "Ode to Billie Joe."
Made for $1.1 million, the film grossed $27 million at the box office, plus earnings in excess of $2.65 million in the foreign market, $4.75 million from television, and $2.5 million from video. However, reviews were mostly negative.
Gentry's song recounts the day when Billie Joe McAllister committed suicide by jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge on Choctaw Ridge, Mississippi. When Gentry discussed the screenplay with Raucher, she explained she did not know why the real person who inspired the character of Billie Joe had killed himself. Raucher thus had a free hand to pick a reason. His novelization of the story, published the year of the film's release as a movie tie-in, used the same rationale for the suicide.
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