Film

My Dog Skip

2000 · 1h 35m · Comedy · Drama · Family

Every family needs an optimist.

IMDb

7.0

Rotten Tomatoes

73%

Metacritic

61

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.

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

• Jay RussellDirector · Executive Producer
• Gail GilchriestScreenplay
• Willie MorrisNovel
• Broderick JohnsonProducer
• Andrew A. KosoveProducer
• John Lee HancockProducer
• Mark JohnsonProducer
• Marty P. EwingExecutive Producer
• James L. CarterDirector of Photography
• William RossOriginal Music Composer

My Dog Skip Trailer

Release date

January 12, 2000

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

PG

Budget

$6,000,000

Revenue

$35,547,761

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Family

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