

21/12/1997
A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a special friendship with his simple, older cousin whose two sisters and bachelor brother feel he needs better influences and role models and decide to send him to military school after the Christmas holidays.

Patty Duke
as Sook

Piper Laurie
as Jennie

Jeffrey DeMunn
as Seabone

Anita Gillette
as Callie

Julia McIlvaine
as Rachel

Esther Scott
as Anna Stabler

Eric Lloyd
as Buddy

Jimmie F. Skaggs
as Haha Jones

Robert C. Treveiler
as Adult Buddy

Dan Albright
as Grocer

Reynolds Allen
as Customer

Suzi Bass
as Rachel's Mother

Dan Biggers
as Rev. Dickson

Lala Cochran
as Lazy Wife

David Dwyer
as Farley Wood

Edith Ivey
as Customer

Frank Roberts
as Mr. Macafee

Alex Van
as Bus Driver

Leland L. Jones
as Tree Deliveryman (uncredited)
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