On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poetic youth in love with a neighbor girl, Muriel. When Richard's messages of poetry to Muriel upset her prudish father, Muriel is forbidden to see him and forced to write a letter saying she wishes no more to do with him. Richard, devastated, sets out to learn the evil ways of the world and put his broken heart behind him.
Anthony Petrillo
Geraldine Fitzgerald
William Swetland
Christina Whitmore
Victor Garber
Joyce Ebert
John Braden
Richard Backus
Ralph Drischell
Linda Hunt
Sean P. Griffin
Suzanne Lederer
Donald Gantry
Swoosie Kurtz