- HD 1080
- Runtime: 105m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Max Baer Jr.
- Stars: Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Joan Hotchkis, Terence Goodman, Sandy McPeak
- keywords: sexual identity, sexual frustration, mississippi river, bridge, coming of age, doll, based on song, poem or rhyme, young love, teen suicide, jumping off a bridge, gay theme, deep south
- Production_studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Slogan: What the song didn't tell you, the movie will.
- The Ode to Billy Joe is featured in the top rankings of 1976
- #11 in Top Romance Movies of 1976
- #74 in Top Drama Movies of 1976
Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms ahead.