"Because of Winn Dixie"
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"Because Of Winn Dixie" - In Theaters February 18, 2005

"Because Of Winn Dixie" - Based on the perennial best seller,
"Because Of Winn Dixie" tells the story of a lonely young girl who adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie (for the supermarket where she found him). The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small Florida town and heals her own troubled relationship with her father.
The village of Napoleonville, Louisiana stands in for the story’s fictional Naomi, Florida. Sleepy Naomi is a place where people have forgotten how to share their sadness and their joy. But Opal and Winn-Dixie might have something to say about that.
Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Dave Matthews and Eva Marie Saint star as the somewhat eccentric adults who benefit from Opal and Winn-Dixie’s bumpy summer of discovery.
Newcomer AnnaSophia Robb ("The Bridge To Terabithia") won the role of Opal following an intensive talent hunt. “Opal and Winn-Dixie have something in common,” says AnnaSophia. “She doesn’t have a mother and he doesn’t have a home. They both want somebody to love and somebody to love them. And, as a team, they begin to realize that other people just might want the same things.”
Winn-Dixie guides Opal into places where magic dozes under a coat of dusty disappointment and awakens the people hiding there. Things begin to change day by day under the summer sun – in a funky pet store, a musty library, a drab mobile home, a ramshackle house and a convenience store-turned temple of worship.
"Because Of Winn Dixie", published by Candlewick Press, was Kate DiCamillo’s first book. It was a New York Times bestseller and recipient of the prestigious Newbery Honor in 2001. It was awarded a Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon, placed on the New York Public Library 100 Books for Reading and Sharing list, was a Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book Of The Year and a School Library Journal Best Book Of The Year. The author’s subsequent books are The Tiger Rising, a National Book Award finalist, and The Tale Of Desperaux, which earned the 2004 Newbery Medal.
STARRING: Jeff Daniels, Dave Matthews, Eva Marie Saint, Cicely Tyson, AnnaSophia Robb
DIRECTOR: Wayne Wang
STUDIO: 20th Century Fox
RATING: PG (For mild language)
THEATER COUNT (Opening Weekend): 3188
RUNNING TIME: 106 minutes
TOTAL DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: $32,647,042
U.S. DVD RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2005
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