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A Christmas Memory

Release Date:December 21, 1997

Running Time:96 min

Genres:Drama, Family, TV Movie

Director

Cast

Patty Duke Piper Laurie Jeffrey DeMunn Anita Gillette Julia McIlvaine Esther Scott Eric Lloyd Jimmie F. Skaggs Robert C. Treveiler Dan Albright Reynolds Allen Suzi Bass

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Synopsis

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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