
"Every family needs an optimist."
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.
Willie Morris

Ellen Morris

Jack Morris

Rivers Applewhite

Narrator

Dink Jenkins

Big Boy Wilkinson
Henjie Henick
Spit McGee

Junior Smalls

Millard

River's Friend

Spectator

Accordian Boy

Mrs. Jenkins
Sammy
Grandpa Percy
Mr. Jenkins
Aunt Maggie