The Grass Harp (1996)

Based on the novel by Truman Capote this oftenwitty comingofage 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 dads cousins Verena and Dolly Verena is a rich bossy businesswoman Dolly Collin and the maid revolt moving to a tree house