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My Dog Skip

My Dog Skip

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 12, 2000

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Family

User Score

67%

Original Title

My Dog Skip

Production Companies

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

Director

Jay Russell

Budget

$6,000,000

Revenue

$35,547,761

Description

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.