
"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.
Director: Jay Russell

Frankie Muniz
Willie Morris

Diane Lane
Ellen Morris

Kevin Bacon
Jack Morris

Caitlin Wachs
Rivers Applewhite

Harry Connick Jr.
Narrator

Luke Wilson
Dink Jenkins
Bradley Coryell
Big Boy Wilkinson
Daylan Honeycutt
Henjie Henick

Cody Linley
Spit McGee

Peter Crombie
Junior Smalls

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