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Because of Winn-Dixie
Movie poster for Because of Winn-Dixie
Directed by	Wayne Wang
Produced by	Joan Singleton
Written by	Kate DiCamillo (novel) Joan Singleton (screenplay)
Starring	AnnaSophia Robb Jeff Daniels Cicely Tyson Dave Matthews Eva Marie Saint
Music by	Rachel Portman
Cinematography	Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Editing by	Deirdre Slevin
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	February 18, 2005
Running time	101 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$14 million
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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 Twentieth Century Fox.

Main article: Because of Winn-Dixie

India Opal Buloni (AnnaSophia Robb) is a lonely 10-year-old who has just moved to the small town of Naomi, Florida with her father (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.

In a result to know more about her mother, Opal asks her father to list ten things about her. She says she got the idea because "Winn-Dixie thinks because I'm (Opal) ten years old I should know ten things about my mother". Her father tells her only nine things and Opal says, "What about the tenth thing? When will I learn that?" Her father replies, "Not tonight."

When Opal meets Miss Franny, a kind old librarian (Eva Marie Saint), Miss Franny tells her many great stories, one being about the old confectionery factory that used to produce the Littmus Lozenge's in Naomi. Opal then takes these lozenges to all her new friends that she has met, the Dewberry boys (Stevie and Dunlap), Otis, Sweetie Pie Thomas, and her daddy the preacher. Although they all eat the same lozenge, they all taste something very very different. Opal's daddy comments on his lozenge tasting very melancholy.

Soon Opal and her new friend Gloria Dump hold a party, except Winn-Dixie runs away because of the storm. Opal puts Winn-Dixie's collar on a leaf to remember him. Then, all of the partiers are inside and Winn-Dixie comes running in. All of them soon start singing "Hallelujah".

• AnnaSophia Robb as India Opal Buloni
• Jeff Daniels as Preacher
• Cicely Tyson as Gloria Dump
• Dave Matthews as Otis
• Eva Marie Saint as Miss Franny
• Courtney Jines as Amanda Wilkinson
• Nick Price as Dunlap Dewberry
• Luke Benward as Stevie Dewberry
• Elle Fanning as Sweetie Pie Thomas
• Harland Williams as Policeman
• Laiko as Winn-Dixie
• Scott as Winn-Dixie

• Dave Matthews, who plays Otis, is also known as the leader of the Dave Matthews Band.
• The two dogs that appeared in the movie were rare Berger Picard (Picardy Shepherd) dogs named Laiko and Scott that were brought over from France for the movie.
• AnnaSophia Robb was seen eating a dog treat.
• The movie was filmed in Donaldsonville, Louisiana and Napoleonville, Louisiana.
• AnnaSophia Robb's theatrical film debut.

• The 'mouse' caught by Winn-Dixie is in fact a rat.

• The party at the end of the movie is rained out, yet immediately afterward, as the last scene fades and the camera provides an aerial view of the party set, hundreds of outdoor candles are burning.

• Official site
• Because of Winn-Dixie at the Internet Movie Database