Narrated by Truman Capote. Emmy Award winning adaptation of Capote’s recollection of his youth in the rural South during the Depression. Living with a slightly dotty but loving “cousin,” Capote remembers back to when he was about 10 years old and it was suddenly decided that “it was fruitcake weather.” The task of baking 30 cakes for mostly far away friends and other rituals of Christmas time are painted with such loving and nostalgic strokes, this becomes a truly beautiful Christmas experience. The poverty of the 1930s fails to stop or even slow down a loving relationship at a loving time of the year.
Mr. Capote’s autobiographical “A Christmas Memory.” which mopped up with television awards, is simply wonderful, a warm, funny and lancingly poignant vignette of a child and a faded eccentric creating a private island of life and love in a small patch of Dixie some thirty years ago. Whether baking a cake, prattling like two wise children or raiding a pecan orchard, young Dennie Melvin and the remarkable Miss Page are unforgettable. The authentic Southern setting looks so real that it hurts, at least to one who raided a pecan orchard or two in his own time. – New York Times
Starring Geraldine Page, Truman Capote, Donnie Melvin, Lavinia Cassels.
Note: Available on DVD in black and white, this appears to only be available in color on VHS as part of [Truman Capote’s Trilogy](http://amzn.to/1NFIbM0) at the time of this writing.