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“A PICTURE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY TO ENJOY!”
An old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.
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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.


Walden Grover
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