Starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor, Ode to Billy Joe grossed $27 million at the box office on a tight budget, according to Baer’s interview with Fore magazine.
The trailer for the Ode to Billy Joe movie teased, “What the song didn’t tell you, the movie will show you”—and boy did it ever.
Benson once told The Advocate that he looked past the perception that Billy Joe and Bobbie Lee were a ‘50s Romeo and Juliet.
Ode to Billy Joe received mixed reviews, with film critic Roger Ebert writing, “Now that I know why Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge, I almost wish I didn’t.” But he also praised the dialogue in the film and the “touching, convincing portrait of its people.”
While the film’s subject matter was dark, O’Connor once shared nostalgic memories of shooting Ode to Billy Joe on location along the Mississippi Delta.
The actress admitted she wasn’t entirely sure how the movie would be able to explain Gentry’s song. “That was a big question from the song,” she said of the mysterious reason for Billy Joe’s demise. “I remember the first time I heard it, I said. ‘Well, maybe they were throwing flowers off the bridge.’ Because at the end she said she spent a lot of time throwing flowers off the bridge. Maybe she was doing that to remind her of Billy Joe.”
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