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The Grass Harp

Cast

Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Edward Furlong View All

Crew

Stirling Silliphant (Screenplay), Charles Matthau (Director), Kirk Ellis (Screenplay) View All

Release: Sep. 10th, 1995

Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.

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Gideon58
Verena Talbo (Sissy Spacek) is this town's Elvira Gulch/Ebeneezer Scrooge, the wealthy witch who owns half the town and her sister, Dolly (Laurie) is a dreamy-eyed loner who has never been with a man and spends all her time concocting her own medicine with the assistance of the Talbo's cook and Doll....

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