Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)

Rated PG 106 min - Family Comedy Drama
A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. 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.

Directors: Wayne Wang

Cast: Annasophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Eva Marie Saint, and Dave Matthews

Release Date: February 18, 2005

32 Movie Reviews
  • piggie101
    piggie101almost 6 years22 popcorn
    It was betterish than the book but the story was bland like the book it has potential but if you watch it after you read the book you feel like your just beating a dead horse. 2 stars
    • kaylaroo
      kaylarooabout 6 years55 popcorn
      this book is so amazing! if you haven't read the book yet you should and then you can watch the movie.one day, I would love to have a dog just like Winn dixie. I mean, that would be so fun!
      • kamilaover 6 years
        i love this it made me cry so hard
        • frostberriecat2
          frostberriecat2about 7 years55 popcornFeatured
          Imagine moving away from your friends so far away that you never see them again. Horrifying right. Not to opal. She doesn't have that much friends she doesn't feel anything about it. A little bit sad but mostly neutral. The same things go on in her new town too. Not a lot of friends. Until she meets a dog in a grocery store. Oh it is so heart warming. Once, she meets that dogs friends sort of show up. Soon she has A library lady (Miss Franny Block) and.... I can't spoil it. It is so amazing!
          • averyover 8 years
            it is really good
            • memoiloveit
              memoiloveitover 8 years44 popcorn
              I watched this movie a 2 years ago, but I still remember it because it's one of my favorite movies related to dogs
              • kamya
                kamyaover 8 years33 popcornFeatured
                A 10-year-old girl named India Opal Buloni has just moved to a trailer park in the small town of Naomi, Florida, with her father, The Preacher, known as that because he preaches at the local church. While in the Winn-Dixie supermarket, Opal sees a scruffy dog wrecking the store. Opal claims the dog is hers, and takes it home to The Preacher. Opal christens the dog Winn-Dixie, after the supermarket. She asks her father to list ten things about her mother, who abandoned them.Miss Franny Block, a librarian, shares great stories about her past including one about her great-grandfather, whose family members died while he was fighting for the South in the Civil War. He invented Littmus Lozenge candies, which tasted like root beer and strawberry but included a secret ingredient— sorrow. Anyone who tasted the candies tasted sweetness mixed with sadness. In Because of Winn-Dixie, these candies symbolize that even though life sometimes deals people a bit of sadness, there is always much to appreciate. Opal learns that her sour faced neighbor, Amanda Wilkinson, lost her brother Carson because he drowned. She vows to be nicer to her from then on.
                • swagdog5
                  swagdog5over 8 years
                  i love this movie read the book too
                  • ILIKESTUFFover 8 years
                    I originally learned about this book when I was very young, but I still love it! The movie is better than the book, but keep reading the books by this author.
                    • sherlockcutepup
                      sherlockcutepupabout 9 years
                      i'm watching the movie right now. Awesome!!