
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.
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Frankie Muniz as Willie Morris

Diane Lane as Ellen Morris

Kevin Bacon as Jack Morris

Caitlin Wachs as Rivers Applewhite

Harry Connick Jr. as Narrator

Luke Wilson as Dink Jenkins

Bradley Coryell as Big Boy Wilkinson

Daylan Honeycutt as Henjie Henick

Cody Linley as Spit McGee

Peter Crombie as Junior Smalls

Clint Howard as Millard

Elizabeth Rice as River's Friend

Chaon Cross as Spectator

Hunter Hayes as Accordian Boy

Susan Carol Davis as Mrs. Jenkins

Nathaniel Lee Jr. as Sammy

John Stiritz as Grandpa Percy

David Pickens as Mr. Jenkins

Lucile Doan Ewing as Aunt Maggie
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