
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.
Cast

Patty Duke
Sook

Piper Laurie
Jennie

Jeffrey DeMunn
Seabone

Anita Gillette
Callie

Julia McIlvaine
Rachel

Esther Scott
Anna Stabler

Eric Lloyd
Buddy

Jimmie F. Skaggs
Haha Jones

Robert C. Treveiler
Adult Buddy

Dan Albright
Grocer
Reynolds Allen
Customer

Suzi Bass
Rachel's Mother

Dan Biggers
Rev. Dickson
Lala Cochran
Lazy Wife

David Dwyer
Farley Wood
Edith Ivey
Customer

Frank Roberts
Mr. Macafee

Alex Van
Bus Driver
Leland L. Jones
Tree Deliveryman (uncredited)
Crew

Glenn Jordan
Director, Producer
Duane Poole
Teleplay, Co-Executive Producer

Truman Capote
Short Story
David A. Simmons
Editor, Associate Producer
Neil Roach
Director of Photography
Robert Halmi Sr.
Executive Producer
John Philip Dayton
Executive Producer
Robert Bennett Steinhauer
Co-Producer
Fred Harpman
Production Design

Lynn Kressel
Casting
Linda Donahue
Costume Design

Lee Holdridge
Music
Joseph Litsch
Set Decoration
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