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Release Date: 1995
Cast: Edward Furlong, Sean Patrick Flanery, Mary Steenburgen, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Charles Durning, Joan Plowright, Piper Laurie, Roddy McDowall, Cicely Tyson, Danny Nelson, Sissy Spacek ...MORE
Cast: Edward Furlong, Sean Patrick Flanery, Mary Steenburgen, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Charles Durning, Joan Plowright, Piper Laurie, Roddy McDowall, Cicely Tyson, Danny Nelson, Sissy Spacek, Joe Don Baker, Nell Carter ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Coming Of Age, Period Piece, Comedy-Drama, Film Adaptation, Drama Film, Americana, Indie, Comedy
The Grass Harp is a 1995 dramatic-comedy film directed by Charles Matthau and starring Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Edward Furlong, and Nell Carter. Piper Laurie won the Best Supporting Actress award from the Southeastern Film Critics Association for her work on the film.
Set in a small 1940s Alabama town, the film follows Collin Fenwick (Edward Furlong) as he is sent to live with his father's maiden cousins, the sweet Dolly (Piper Laurie) and the overbearing Verena (Sissy Spacek), following the death of his mother. He soon discovers that the Talbo household is anything but... MORE
The Grass Harp is a 1995 dramatic-comedy film directed by Charles Matthau and starring Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Edward Furlong, and Nell Carter. Piper Laurie won the Best Supporting Actress award from the Southeastern Film Critics Association for her work on the film.
Set in a small 1940s Alabama town, the film follows Collin Fenwick (Edward Furlong) as he is sent to live with his father's maiden cousins, the sweet Dolly (Piper Laurie) and the overbearing Verena (Sissy Spacek), following the death of his mother. He soon discovers that the Talbo household is anything but normal. After also losing his father, Collin grows to be close to Dolly and Catherine (Nell Carter) and becomes acquainted with the eccentric townspeople, from the gossip-loving barber (Roddy McDowall) to a traveling evangelist with fifteen illegitimate kids (Mary Steenburgen). To escape Verena's oppression, Dolly, Collin, and Catherine run away to an old tree house in the woods. Their rebellion sparks a series of events that change their lives and the entire town as well.
The Grass Harp feature film was closely based on Truman Capote's 1951 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. The LESS
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