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First Look: Because of Winn Dixie

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First Look: Because of Winn Dixie

Release: February 18
Director: Wayne Wang
Screenplay by: Joan Singleton, based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo
Producers: Trevor Albert, Joan Singleton
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Dave Matthews, Eva Marie Saint, and introducing AnnaSophia Robb

Based on the perennial best seller, a lonely young girl adopts an orphaned dog, Winn-Dixie (so named for the supermarket where she found him), who helps her makes friends in a small Florida town. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the townspeople, and helps heal her own troubled relationship with her father.

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