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.

• DirectorJay Russell
• Release12 January 2000
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration1h 35m
• Budget$6,000,000
• Revenue$35,547,761
• Rate
  

  6.7
  277 reviews
• Productions

  Alcon Entertainment, Mark Johnson Productions, John Lee Hancock Productions, MDS Productions