Ode (1999)

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 traditionbound faith and asks whether its possible to commit a sin against a religion that wont even have you as a member