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.

Sook

Jennie

Seabone

Callie

Rachel

Anna Stabler

Buddy

Haha Jones

Adult Buddy

Grocer

Rachel's Mother

Rev. Dickson

Farley Wood

Mr. Macafee

Bus Driver
December 21, 1997

Sook

Jennie

Seabone

Callie

Rachel

Anna Stabler

Buddy

Haha Jones

Adult Buddy

Grocer

Rachel's Mother

Rev. Dickson

Farley Wood

Mr. Macafee

Bus Driver
