Release Date

12 Jan, 2000

Runtime

01:35: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Every family needs an optimist.

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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Actors

Frankie Muniz

Diane Lane

Kevin Bacon

Caitlin Wachs

Harry Connick Jr.

Luke Wilson

Bradley Coryell

Daylan Honeycutt

Cody Linley

Peter Crombie

Clint Howard

Elizabeth Rice

Chaon Cross

Hunter Hayes

Susan Carol Davis

Nathaniel Lee Jr.

John Stiritz

David Pickens

Lucile Doan Ewing

Crew

Jay Russell

Gail Gilchriest

Willie Morris

James L. Carter

William Ross

David J. Bomba

Mindy Marin

Tracey A. Doyle

Edi Giguere

Jeanne-Louise Bulliard

Judi Townsend

Jeff Habberstad

Deva Anderson

Delphine Robertson