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Every family needs an optimist. - My Dog Skip
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Title: My Dog Skip

Release Date: 12 Jan 2000

Runtime: 1h 35m

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: Alcon Entertainment, Mark Johnson Productions, John Lee Hancock Productions, MDS Productions

Production Companies: Alcon Entertainment, Mark Johnson Productions, John Lee Hancock Productions, MDS Productions

Overview: A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.7 (272 votes)

Cast

  • Willie Morris: Frankie Muniz
  • Ellen Morris: Diane Lane
  • Jack Morris: Kevin Bacon
  • Rivers Applewhite: Caitlin Wachs
  • Narrator: Harry Connick Jr.
  • Dink Jenkins: Luke Wilson
  • Big Boy Wilkinson: Bradley Coryell
  • Henjie Henick: Daylan Honeycutt
  • Spit McGee: Cody Linley
  • Junior Smalls: Peter Crombie
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