My Dog Skip poster
Director Jay Russell
Screenplay Gail Gilchriest

My Dog Skip

Tagline: Every family needs an optimist.

Release Date: 2000-01-12

Duration: 95 minutes

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. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.

Casting

  • Kevin Bacon
    Jack Morris
  • Diane Lane
    Ellen Morris
  • Luke Wilson
    Dink Jenkins
  • Clint Howard
    Millard
  • Clint Howard
    Aunt Maggie
  • Frankie Muniz
    Willie Morris
  • Caitlin Wachs
    Rivers Applewhite
  • Elizabeth Rice
    River's Friend
  • Harry Connick Jr.
    Narrator
  • Peter Crombie
    Junior Smalls