2000/01/12 (US) | Comedy, Drama, Family
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.
Jay Russell
Director
Gail Gilchriest
Screenplay
Frankie Muniz
Willie Morris
Diane Lane
Ellen Morris
Kevin Bacon
Jack Morris
Caitlin Wachs
Rivers Applewhite
Harry Connick Jr.
Narrator
Luke Wilson
Dink Jenkins
No Image
Bradley Coryell
Big Boy Wilkinson
$ 6,000,000
$ 35,547,761
Released
Willie Morris
Novel
Jeff Habberstad
Stunt Coordinator
Sheridan Thayer
Production Supervisor
William Ross
Original Music Composer
Alexandra Gonzales
Dialogue Editor
William Jacobs
Sound Effects Editor