Alternately treacly and bizarre, this adaptation of Truman Capote's novel by Walter Matthau's son Charles won't make anyone forget Breakfast at Tiffany's real soon. An orphaned boy (Edward Furlong) takes up residence at the home of his wealthy aunt (Sissy Spacek in a bun and bifocals) and her dotty sister Dolly (Piper Laurie, in a performance that will make your teeth ache). It's a typical Southern town in the '40s filled with eccentrics and the uptight people who oppress them. Dolly takes a contingent of the former to live in a treehouse, with tragi-farcical results. The sentimentality is almost offset by wacky cameos by Jack Lemmon and Roddy McDowall, and Matthau senior is wry and peckish as a retired judge who writes love letters to a 15-year-old-girl. Ultimately, though, this is fare only for those with a taste for Fried Green Tomatoes. At the Copley Place and the Harvard Square.