Grass Harp

The Grass Harp is told from the point of view of 16-year old Collin Fenwick (Edward Furlong), an orphaned boy who began living with his fathers' cousins when he was 11. He is the lone male in a house of three women. There's Verena (Sissy Spacek), a humorless, mousy woman whose entire life is devoted to making money; Dolly (Piper Laurie), an insecure dreamer who is intimidated by her sister, Verena; and Catherine (Nell Carter), Dolly's …

…Grass Harp is nice enough, but it doesn't amount to much. For this kind of drama to succeed, we need to develop more powerful feelings than those engendered by Dolly, Verena, and Collin. The title is said to refer to the sound made by the wind rustling through fields of uncut grass -- "a harp of voices telling stories." I just wish the story related here had been about a more compelling group of characters.