A Christmas Memory

A Christmas Memory

96 mins | Drama, Family, TV Movie | Dec. 21, 1997

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.

A Christmas Memory

96 mins | Drama, Family, TV Movie | Dec. 21, 1997

A Christmas Memory
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Hallmark Entertainment, RHI Entertainment, Holiday Productions, JAWO Productions
Original title A Christmas Memory
Directors Glenn Jordan
Writers Duane Poole, Truman Capote

Cast

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