My Dog Skip

United States

2000

95 Min

Color

1.37:1

English

Currently 2.4/5 Stars.
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EXEC Marty P. Ewing, Jay Russell

PROD John Lee Hancock, Broderick Johnson, Mark Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove

SCR Willie Morris, Gail Gilchriest

CAST Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Bradley Coryell, Daylan Honeycutt, Cody Linley, Caitlin Wachs, Peter Crombie, Clint Howard, Mark Beech, Susan Carol Davis, David Pickens, Lucile Doan Ewing, Nathaniel Lee Jr., Polly Craig, John Stiritz, John M. Sullivan II, Elizabeth Rice, Nate Bynum

ED Harvey Rosenstock, Gary Winter

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. —IMDb

Director

Jay Russell

Jay Russell (born January 10, 1960 in North Little Rock, Arkansas), is a film director and also executive producer and director of the film My Dog Skip.

His other directing credits include Tuck Everlasting, Ladder 49 and The Water Horse. He has also written and directed End of the Line.

Russell graduated from Columbia University in 1984 with a MFA in screenwriting and directing, having studied with producer Michael Hausman and director Milos Forman. His first film, End of the Line (1987), was a Sundance Institute project and was released by Orion Classics. He has since written projects for Imagine Entertainment and TriStar Pictures and has directed numerous documentaries for PBS, Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, CBS, Fox, USA Network and NBC.

He has also worked on film projects such as Duncan, Whole Lotta Sole and Wake the Dead. —Wikipedia

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MGeo

26Nov11

I thought it was a sweet story about a boy and his dog. I am aware it is a story that has been told countless times before, but then again; does it need to be more complicated than that? Props to Frankie Muniz for trying a serious role, especially during a time he was exclusively known for Malcolm in the Middle.