Plot
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.
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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)
