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Release year: 2002

Storyline

In 1898, spirited nine-year-old Ociee Nash lives with her father and brother in rural Mississippi until her father sends her to live with her refined aunt in Asheville, North Carolina.

Top credits

Directors

Kristen McGary

Writers

Cast

Skyler Day — Ociee Nash
Woofer — Self
Anthony P. Rodriguez — Gypsy John Leon
Bill Butler — Ben Nash

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Did you know

• Ociee Nash was an actual person, the grandmother of author Milam McGraw Propst, who penned the novel "A Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street" from which the screenplay was drawn. The real Ociee Nash was born in 1889 and was 9 years old in 1898 - the year in which the film is set, and the age of the on-screen title character.

• First film acting role for Ty Pennington of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2003) (which also premiered in 2003) fame, who portrays pioneering aviator Wilbur Wright.

• The character of Harry Vanderbilt was based generally on the Vanderbilt family, of which, George Washington Vanderbilt II (the youngest son of the third generation of the family founded by Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt) purchased a large tract of land in Asheville, North Carolina (where the story in this film is largely set) in 1889 to build the largest mansion in the United States, Biltmore, which had it's grand opening celebration on Christmas Eve, 1895. GW Vanderbilt did not have any sons or younger brothers. His only daughter, Cornelia, was not born until 1900.