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...Opal’s father, a man known solely as the Preacher. He pines for his former wife, who left the family when Opal was three, and works too much to have time for his daughter. As the weary and well-meaning father and parishioner of a convenience store-turned-Baptist church, he dispenses lines such as, “There’s nothing wrong with making church more convenient,” with forced chuckles to his meager congregation...
...town composed of people that have forgotten how to share their sadness and joy. Opal and Preacher, like the other townsfolk, live in their own bubbles of life, brushing against each other’s quirks and eccentricities as carelessly as one browses the aisles of a grocery store...
Such beneficiaries of the dog’s daring deeds include Otis, a pet-store owner played by a ballad-crooning Dave Matthews, whose audience consists of parrots, rabbits, and the occasional goat. As the movie’s sole instrument for bringing in the teenage masses, Matthews’ character is, appropriately, depicted as the “magic man”, whose music eventually brings a wandering Winn-Dixie home...
...Opal’s father, a man known solely as the Preacher. He pines for his former wife, who left the family when Opal was three, and works too much to have time for his daughter. As the weary and well-meaning father and parishioner of a convenience store-turned-Baptist church, he dispenses lines such as, “There’s nothing wrong with making church more convenient,” with forced chuckles to his meager congregation...
Despite his status as a veritable academic superstar, Appiah showed up at the Book Store last Thursday—a stone’s throw from his former office, in an unpretentious navy-blue suit, with tortoise shell glasses perched on the end of his nose. He spoke carefully and delicately, with an accent that reflected his own complex identity—Appiah would draw out the “ir” in circle as an Englishman, but would pronounce the “er” in “mother” in the American...