Winn dixie movie cast

In this endearing adaptation of Kate DiCamillo's popular children's book, a preacher's shy daughter comes out of her shell when she adopts a stray dog in a sleepy Florida hamlet. Close Ad. New This Month. New and Upcoming Netflix Shows and Movies. New and Upcoming Hulu Shows and Movies. Naked Wines has a Great Offer. What to Watch.

Winn dixie movie cast

Because of Winn-Dixie is a American family comedy-drama film based on Kate DiCamillo 's novel of the same name , with the screenplay written by Joan Singleton, produced by Trevor Albert and directed by Wayne Wang. It was produced by Walden Media and released by 20th Century Fox. Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni has just moved to the fictional small town of Naomi, Florida with her father who is a preacher. She not wanting the manager to send him to the pound claims that he is her dog and names him "Winn-Dixie". He becomes friends with everyone he encounters, and so Opal makes some new friends in the process. She also rekindles her relationship with her father and learns ten things about her mother, Benjean-Megan, who abandoned them when she was three. She describes the preacher as a turtle, always sticking his head into his shell, and never wanting to come out into the real world. This is most likely because of how sad he is about her mother, whom he is still in love with. One of the people Opal meets is Miss Franny Block, a kind and somewhat eccentric elder librarian, who tells her many great stories, including one involving a bear who invaded the library. She also meets Gloria Dump, a blind African-American recovering alcoholic with a "mistake tree" with beer bottles hanging from it in her backyard. She tells Opal that the bottles, including alcohol bottles, represent the ghosts of all the things she has done wrong. One day, fed up with Winn-Dixie, the landlord of the Bulonis' trailer park, Mr.

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A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends. Gloria : Listen Do you understand what I'm sayin'? You just got to love it while you got it, and that's that. Sign In Sign In.

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