Product Details

• Actors: Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Joan Hotchkis, Sandy McPeak, James Best
• Directors: Max Baer Jr.
• Writers: Herman Raucher
• Producers: Max Baer Jr., Mark Sussman, Roger Camras
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: January 18, 1994
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302877822
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,126 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Based on a 1967 hit song. A seventeen-year-old boy is seduced into a homosexual act. His guilt over the incident drives him to commit suicide by jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge, leaving his girlfriend behind.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cancelled????, March 4, 2009

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C. Wood - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ode to Billy Joe [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Amazon first listed this DVD for a release date of Feb. 10, then April 28, NOW they have completely removed it all together, no explanations! After searching many other websites I have found that the release of this long awaited DVD has been cancelled! What's up with that!?

If you, too, are disappointed with this decision, write to Warner Bros. Home Video and voice your complaint, as did I.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tragically beautiful story, February 16, 2000

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w vansickle - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ode to Billy Joe [VHS] (VHS Tape)

O.k. so perhaps this movie wasn't fast-paced, action-packed, or full of big budget special effects. Perhaps it wasn't even filled with gratuitous nudity, but it still had a lot of things going for it. It had a kind of simple tenderness to it which I found entirely enchanting. It's one of those films that sort of haunt me as though it were one of my own memories. The transformation from innocence and immaturity to harsh reality was eerily vivid. This movie is a definite must-see.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FINALLY!! BILLY JOE GETS HIS. OR SO WE THOUGHT?, January 7, 2009

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CWATKINS "CWATKINS" (FLORIDA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ODE TO BILLY JOE (DVD)

This has been a long awaited dvd release!! I will add more to the review after seeing what they have done to this classic. LOOKS LIKE AMAZON HAS CANCELLED THE DVD RELEASE...IT IS NO LONGER ON MY WISH LIST AND HAS DISAPPEARED FROM ANY SEARCHS..