In 1950s Mississippi, teenager Bobbie Lee Hartley navigates her blossoming hormones as she is courted by Billy Joe McAllister, who is headed for tragedy.In 1950s Mississippi, teenager Bobbie Lee Hartley navigates her blossoming hormones as she is courted by Billy Joe McAllister, who is headed for tragedy.In 1950s Mississippi, teenager Bobbie Lee Hartley navigates her blossoming hormones as she is courted by Billy Joe McAllister, who is headed for tragedy.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe release weekend for this movie coincided with the date from the first line of the song that inspired it: "It was the 3rd of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day"
- GoofsAs Papa Hartley and the three boys are battling it out in their trucks on the bridge the camera moves from inside the Hartley truck looking out to outside looking in. As they do this you see from the inside that the windshield in front of the driver is badly cracked but as they move to the outside angle it is not cracked at all.
- Quotes
Bobbie Lee Hartley: It's gonna be all right. We've just been waiting so long and trying so hard. Oh, it's all right Billy Joe.
Billy Joe McAllister: It ain't all right! I ain't all right!
[long pause as Billy Joe walks a few steps away from Bobbie Lee]
Billy Joe McAllister: Bobbie... I have been with a man! Did you hear me? Which is a sin against nature! A sin against God! I don't know how I could have done it, I swear! I don't know how I could be wanting you and do that.
Bobbie Lee Hartley: But you were drunk. Maybe you just imagined it.
Billy Joe McAllister: I didn't imagine nothing!
Bobbie Lee Hartley: But you were drunk. Everyone saw how drunk you were.
Billy Joe McAllister: I... I knew. I knew what was happening.
Bobbie Lee Hartley: Who was it?
Billy Joe McAllister: I ain't gonna say.
Bobbie Lee Hartley: Why? I wish I could understand.
Billy Joe McAllister: I wish I could.
- Alternate versionsThe VHS has the 1990 Warner Bros Pictures logo while the current releases use the 1992 variant.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Carol Burnett Show: Dinah Shore - Went with the Wind (1976)
- SoundtracksOde to Billie Joe
Written and Performed by Bobbie Gentry
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1