Every family needs an optimist.
6.7
95 min
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.
Name | Character | Team | |
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Frankie Muniz | Willie Morris | Unowned | |
Diane Lane | Ellen Morris | Goutbreak | |
Kevin Bacon | Jack Morris | Calvin and Nobbs | |
Caitlin Wachs | Rivers Applewhite | Unowned | |
Harry Connick Jr. | Narrator | Unowned | |
Luke Wilson | Dink Jenkins | Unowned | |
Bradley Coryell | Big Boy Wilkinson | Unowned | |
Daylan Honeycutt | Henjie Henick | Unowned | |
Cody Linley | Spit McGee | Unowned | |
Peter Crombie | Junior Smalls | Unowned | |
Clint Howard | Millard | Unowned | |
Elizabeth Rice | River's Friend | Unowned | |
Chaon Cross | Spectator | Unowned | |
Hunter Hayes | Accordian Boy | Unowned | |
Susan Carol Davis | Mrs. Jenkins | Unowned | |
Nathaniel Lee Jr. | Sammy | Unowned | |
John Stiritz | Grandpa Percy | Unowned | |
David Pickens | Mr. Jenkins | Unowned | |
Lucile Doan Ewing | Aunt Maggie | Unowned |