A Christmas Memory
1997A 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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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)