The two leads in this film have that for each other. The heart of this story is about "Unconditional Love". This is a well made adaption of source material. Buddy and Sook embark on many delightful exploits, but forces beyond their control threaten to separate them. Though cousin Jennie (Piper Laurie) is strict and joy is hard to come by in the small town, Buddy finds an unlikely friend in his mentally challenged elder cousin, Sook (Patty Duke). NOW I HAVE NO AGENDA! I AM HONEST! I REVIEW Christmas MOVIES AS A WAY TO KEEP TRACK OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN! This film is a bout a boy named "Buddy" When Buddy's parents split and his New York thespian mother makes her career a priority, exuberant young boy Buddy (Eric Lloyd) is sent to the Depression-era South to live with distant and aging cousins. WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE PRODUCTION. There’s more on my “About” Page.I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 400 Christmas MOVIES. He handles the short story format well and I’m even beginning to feel a little more joyous towards the coming festival after reading it.īook reviewer based in Weymouth, Dorset. This has really whetted my appetite for more Capote. It is also characterisation which is the strong point of “Jug Of Silver” but it is not as fully realised as its predecessor in the book. My favourite story is also not especially Christmassy, “Children On Their Birthdays” shows strong characterisation and his plot of a new young female arrival in town is highly involving.
The young boy spends Christmas with an absent father in “One Christmas.” The least successful story “Master Misery” dates from 1949 and is a more brittle New York tale with a female main character which deals in the importance of dreams and will no doubt have some bearing on his later (1958) novel which confirmed his literary superstar status, “Breakfast At Tiffanys”. “A Christmas Memory” is a wistful tale of seasonal preparations and their relationship is explored further in “A Thanksgiving Visitor” (okay, not quite Xmas) where her role as care-giver and educator is enhanced. The first three feature the narrator’s relationship with an elderly yet almost child-like female cousin, Miss Sook, who the young protagonist adores. I don’t know enough about him to know how autobiographical they are (again an introduction would have helped). I’m not sure whether this would be put right in the published version but it seems the stories span from 1945 when Capote was a callow youth of 21 to a tale which is copyrighted 1982 so may not have seen the light until a couple of years before his death, but I guess was probably written much earlier.Ĭapote writes with a sense of nostalgia which is so appropriate for the festive period and I could see some of these stories ending up in my “read yearly” list. I read an early review edition which was without any introduction which I would have really appreciated to put these tales in context. Penguin Classics have put out for this festive season a collection of six of his short stories around the theme of Christmas. With the reign of my current Book Of The Year “ Swan Song” by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott coming to an end I have made good my promise to myself to explore further the writings of her central character, Truman Capote.
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