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Because of Winn-Dixie is a best selling children's novel by Kate DiCamillo. It has also been adapted as a 2005 family film, directed by Wayne Wang.

Plot

Opal Buloni (played by AnnaSophia Robb) is a lonely 10-year-old who has just moved to the small town of Naomi, Florida with her father (played by Jeff Daniels). The move has resulted in her losing all her friends, and she now has to make new ones.

While in the Winn-Dixie supermarket, 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 about her mother who abandoned them seven years ago.

Main cast

AnnaSophia Robb
— Opal
Jeff Daniels
— Preacher
Cicely Tyson
— Gloria
Dave Matthews — Otis
Eva Marie Saint
— Miss Franny
Elle Fanning
— Sweetie Pie Thomas

Trivia

Dave Matthews, who plays Otis, is also known as the leader of the Dave Matthews Band.
The two dogs used for the movie were rare Berger Picard dogs that were brought over from France for the movie.

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