My Dog Skip

Jan 12, 2000

1h 35m

★ 6.7

Every family needs an optimist.

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Family

Production Companies

Alcon Entertainment

Mark Johnson Productions

John Lee Hancock Productions

MDS Productions

My Dog Skip Trailers

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

Millard

Clint Howard

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