Storyline
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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100
Philadelphia Inquirer
This is a sweet, gentle film - slow and sunny like a summer day, with a message that growing up can be hard, but can also serve as the wellspring of memories that will sustain you for a lifetime.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It works because it never tries to be more than the very personal memory piece it is.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
A movie like this falls outside ordinary critical language. Is it good or bad? Is there too much melodrama? I don't have any idea. It triggered too many thoughts of my own for me to have much attention left over for footnotes.
75
A film that proves even the tiredest genre can be reinvigorated in the right hands.
75
USA Today
A family movie with a heart and a brain. And if you aren't moved to tears, you might need an organ transplant.
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