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| Ode to Billy Joe | |
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| Directed by | Max Baer Jr. |
| Screenplay by | Herman Raucher |
| Based on | Ode to Billie Joe 1967 song by Bobbie Gentry |
| Produced by | Max Baer Jr. |
| Starring | Robby Benson Glynnis O'Connor |
| Cinematography | Michel Hugo |
| Edited by | Frank Morriss |
| Music by | Michel Legrand |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 105 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US $1.1 million |
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."[1]
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.[citation needed] However, reviews were mostly negative.[citation needed]
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.[2] 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.
- ^ Eder, Richard (August 19, 1976). "'Billy Joe' Leaps From Southern Romance to Dirge: The Cast". The New York Times.
- ^ Wayne Studer (1994). Rock on The Wild Side: gay male images in popular music of the rock era. Leyland Publications. pp. 97–98. ISBN 0943595460.