My Dog Skip is a 2000 film, directed by Jay Russell. It is based on the autobiographical book My Dog Skip by Willie Morris. The movie was released January 14, 2000. The movie recounts a few anecdotes about 9-year-old Willie growing up in Yazoo City, Mississippi. The son of a veteran of the Spanish Civil War and a housewife, Willie is the daily victim of three school bullies. Then one day the title character, a dog he names Skip comes into his life, and everything changes. The dog is Willie's entry into a world of new friendships. Willie Morris as an adult is looking back on his childhood in... the early 1940s and how it was colored by his dog, a Jack Russell Terrier named Skip . In the beginning, Willie is a lonely child with a gruff, proud father and a charismatic, talkative mother , but he is an only child and small for his age with few friends. His one companion is a young man who lives next door, Dink Jenkins , who is the local sports hero in Mississippi.
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| Release date: | 2000 |
| Directed by: | Jay Russell |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 95 Minutes |
| Producer: | Mark Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson |
| Music by: | William Ross |
| Screenplay by: | Gail Gilchriest |
| Estimated budget: | $6,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | My Dog Skip |