"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 tradition-bound faith, and asks whether it's possible to commit a sin against a religion that won't even have you as a member.
Heather Gottlieb
as Bobbie Lee
Kevin Poole
as Billy Joe
Jon Wurster
as James
Jim Wiley
as Reverend Hartley
Bonnie Johnson
as Mrs. Hartley
Bill Mooney
as Father McGuire
Matt Neal
as Fair Guy
Martin Baucom
as Rude Passerby
Michelle J. Moore
as Billie Joe's Mom
Terry Bisson
as Narrator (voice)
