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.
$6,000,000
$35,547,761
January 12, 2000
Alcon Entertainment, Mark Johnson Productions
21 people
Frankie Muniz
Willie Morris
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Diane Lane
Ellen Morris
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Kevin Bacon
Jack Morris
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Caitlin Wachs
Rivers Applewhite
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Harry Connick Jr.
Narrator
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Luke Wilson
Dink Jenkins
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Bradley Coryell
Big Boy Wilkinson
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Daylan Honeycutt
Henjie Henick
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Cody Linley
Spit McGee
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Peter Crombie
Junior Smalls
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Clint Howard
Millard
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Elizabeth Rice
River's Friend
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