Eighteen-year-old Billy Joe McAllister is in love with Bobbie Lee, but her father forbids her from receiving gentlemen callers until she's sixteen. In 1960s Mississippi, a young man's thoughts constantly turn to love. Billy Joe's persistence is testing Bobbie Lee's virtue, and their struggles with love and sex have tragic consequences. The film explores the artificial conventions of society and the tragic consequences of a young couple's first experiences with love and sex.
Ode to Billy Joe
Bobbie Lee Hartley, a teenager in 1950s Mississippi, struggles with adolescence as she falls for Billy Joe McAllister, whose fate is already sealed.
