Sugary nostalgia piece, from an autobiographical Capote novel, set in the pre-WWII South. Sissy Spacek, incapable of dishonesty, is pinched and starchy in the unusual role (for her) of a small-town pillar, and Edward Furlong is his usual mope, but the rest of the cast -- Piper Laurie, Nell Carter, Walter Matthau (with a frightful wig), Jack Lemmon, Joe Don Baker, Charles Durning, Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall -- pile the ham high. Directed, laxly, by Charles (son of Walter) Matthau. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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