***^One Christmas This is a Truman Capote story which was made into a TV
movie in 1994. It features Henry Winkler as Buddy's (T.J. Lowther)
father, Swoosie Kurtz as father's girlfriend and Katharine Hepburn as
the girlfriends influential aunt, Cornelia Beaumont. Buddy is visiting
his father, who he doesn't know very well. He was living with Aunt
Sook in Alabama. Father lives in New Orleans. Father is a con artist,
manipulating women to give him money for his investments. He is
currently investing in a plane scheduled to be in a race. He is sure of
winning, until the engine blows. He has to find investors to pay for a
new engine, and gets one of faulty history. Swoosie is a major
investor, over the objection of her aunt. I liked this movie because
it showed the growth of the characters. They all seem to mature. Buddy
learns to love his father, although he prefers Alabama. His father
learns to be more honest. Swoosie learns to stand for herself and make
her own decisions and Miss Beaumont learns to open up more in her old
age. This movie is a bit slow, but I mildly recommend it.
