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My Dog Skip

Every family needs an optimist.

2000 · PG · 1h 35m

Directed by Jay Russell

6.7

TMDB audience score
296 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • 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

  • Chaon Cross
    Spectator

  • Hunter Hayes
    Accordian Boy

  • Susan Carol Davis
    Mrs. Jenkins

  • Nathaniel Lee Jr.
    Sammy

  • John Stiritz
    Grandpa Percy

  • David Pickens
    Mr. Jenkins