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At last, were given the answers to the questions raised by the haunting 1967 Bobbie Gentry song of the same title. Eighteen- year-old Billy Joe McAllister is in love with Bobbie Lee, but her father refuses to allow her to receive gentlemen callers before shes sixteen. In the Mississippi Delta, in a time before the boondocks had seen television and indoor plumbing, a young mans fancy turns constantly to thoughts of love. Billy Joe is no different in this regard and his persistence is making it difficult for Bobbie Lee to maintain her virtue (the dog-earred issues of "Torrid Romance" dont help either). Perhaps an indictment of the artificial conventions of society, the film demonstrates the tragic consequences of a young couples first awkward grapplings with love and sex. As Bobbie Lee says shortly after Billy Joes lifeless body is dragged from the Tallahatchie River, "What do I know of love... Im only a child." Yet, there seems little doubt that what she feels for the dead boy is love. Could he have loved her so well?
Robby Benson
Billy Joe McAllister
Glynnis O'Connor
Bobbie Lee Hartley
Joan Hotchkis
Anna 'Mama' Hartley
Sandy McPeak
Glenn 'Papa' Hartley
James Best
Dewey Barksdale
Terence Goodman
James Hartley
Becky Bowen
Becky Thompson
Simpson Hemphill
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Ed Shelnut
Coleman Stroud
Eddie Talr
Tom Hargitay
William Hallberg
Dan McAllister
Frannye Capelle
Belinda Wiggs
Rebecca Jernigan
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