Released:
1997-12-21

Overview:
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.

Director:
Glenn Jordan

Runtime:
1h 36min

Genre:
Drama, Family, TV Movie

• Cast:
• 
  Patty Duke
  as
  Sook
• 
  Piper Laurie
  as
  Jennie
• 
  Jeffrey DeMunn
  as
  Seabone
• 
  Anita Gillette
  as
  Callie
• 
  Julia McIlvaine
  as
  Rachel