6.8 Score

2000 • 1h 35min • PG • Comedy, Drama, Family

My Dog Skip

"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.

IMDb 7.0

RT 73%

MC 61

Director

Jay Russell

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Willie Morris

Gail Gilchriest

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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

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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

Clint Howard Millard

Elizabeth Rice River's Friend

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