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Quick Info

Rating

6.7/10

Release2000

Runtime1h 35m

StatusReleased

Budget$6,000,000

Revenue$35,547,761

Production

Alcon Entertainment

Mark Johnson Productions

John Lee Hancock Productions

MDS Productions

Movie

My Dog Skip

2000

1h 35m

6.7

Comedy

Drama

Family

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.

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