Once all the fruitcakes are made, Sook and Buddy deliver them one-by-one on foot, even mailing some to the governor, President and Mrs. One of the sisters doesn’t think Buddy spending all the time with Sook is a good thing and starts to hatch a plan to enroll Buddy in a military academy to toughen him up. Buddy calls her out and the two get into a skirmish and are pulled apart by Sook. Meanwhile, a neighbor girl keeps bugging Buddy with her exaggerated stories including the governor going to her house for dinner. Buddy and Sook are very close and the two break out all their savings to go to town and purchase what they need to make their annual fruitcakes. Throughout this introduction, we find out his mom and dad are divorced and his mom is a New York actress who has sent him to the South two years ago to live with his aunts and uncle.

He runs back to his home where we learn his aunt Sook (Patty Duke) is starting to feel like it is “fruitcake weather.” Buddy agrees, saying some of the other kids are starting to wear shoes so it must be getting colder. The kite gets stuck near a drinking establishment called “HaHa’s” and Buddy is too scared to retrieve the kite. We start out by meeting young Buddy (Eric Lloyd) as he is flying a homemade kite.

It was directed by Glenn Jordan, a director of many TV movies of the 1970s-1990s and was adopted by Duane Poole. The film stars Patty Duke, Piper Laurie, Jeffrey DeMunn, Anita Gillette, Julia McIlvaine, Esther Scott, and Eric Lloyd. It is based on a story by Truman Capote about a time in his life. A Christmas Memory is a Hallmark movie that first aired on television on December 21, 1997.

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