
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.

as Willie Morris

as Ellen Morris

as Jack Morris

as Rivers Applewhite

as Narrator

as Dink Jenkins

as Big Boy Wilkinson

as Henjie Henick

as Spit McGee

as Junior Smalls

as Millard

as River's Friend

as Spectator

as Accordian Boy

as Mrs. Jenkins

as Sammy

as Grandpa Percy

as Mr. Jenkins

as Aunt Maggie