Because of Winn-Dixie is a 2005 film adapted from the book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo and directed by Wayne Wang. It was produced by Walden Media and released by 20th Century Fox. The role of Winn-Dixie was played by two Picardy Shepherds, a rare breed from France.
10-year-old Opal Buloni (AnnaSophia Robb) has just moved to the small town of Naomi, Florida with her father, a preacher (Jeff Daniels).
While in the Winn-Dixie supermarket that summer, she encounters a scruffy dog that is wreaking havoc. She claims that it is hers, and names it Winn-Dixie. She discovers that Winn-Dixie becomes friends with everyone he encounters, and she makes some new friends in the process. She also rekindles the relationship with her father, and learns ten things about her mother who abandoned them seven years ago. Opal once describes the preacher as an old turtle, always sticking his head into his turtle shell and never wanting to come out into the real world, 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 (Eva Marie Saint), a kind and somewhat eccentric elder librarian, who runs the Herman W. Block Memorial Library and tells her many great stories, including one involving a bear. Opal also meets Gloria Dump (Cicely Tyson), a blind recovering alcoholic with a mistake tree in her backyard that has beer bottles hanging from it, which she describes as the ghosts of all the things she has done wrong.
One day during the summer, fed up with Winn-Dixie, the landlord of the Bulonis' trailer park, Mr. Alfred, orders the preacher to get rid of the dog. The preacher calls the pound to take Winn-Dixie away. Opal begs her father in tears not to let them take Winn-Dixie. Unable to see his daughter this upset, the preacher tells the people from the pound to return Winn-Dixie, claiming that he is not the dog he called about.
Opal gets a job at Gertrude's Pets and befriends a worker there, Otis (Dave Matthews), a shy ex-convict with a passion for music. She also meets a girl named Sweetie Pie Thomas (Elle Fanning) who is eager to get a dog like Winn-Dixie. Opal now feels happy that she has made so many friends. Opal eventually gets to keep Winn-Dixie. Later, a thunderstorm comes and Winn-Dixie, being afraid of thunderstorms, runs away. While Opal looks for him, her father wants to give up and she blames him for her mother and Winn-Dixie running away. But her father explains that he tried very hard to look for her mother. He then, admits that he believes that she is never coming back. Soon, they go back to the party and Otis starts to sing a song on his guitar. Winn Dixie is heard outside howling along to the song. Everyone lets him in and welcomes him back. His "singing" led to him being discovered. With this reunion, everyone sings as the credits roll.
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Because of Winn-Dixie
Because of Winn-Dixie
Because of Winn-Dixie
Because of Winn-Dixie wallpaper - 2005
Because of Winn-Dixie wallpaper - 2005
Because of Winn-Dixie wallpaper - 2005
Because of Winn-Dixie wallpaper - 2005
Right: Annasophia Robb as Opal.
Annasophia Robb as Opal in Wayne Wang's comedy/drama Because of Winn-Dixie also starring Jeff Daniels and Dave Matthews - 2005.
Annasophia Robb as Opal in comedy/drama movie Because of Winn-Dixie distributed by Twentieth Century Fox.
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