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Revision as of 17:34, 23 January 2009
| Hotel for Dogs | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Thor Freudenthal |
| Written by | Novel Lois Duncan Screenplay Jeff Lowell Bob Schooley Mark McCorkle |
| Produced by | Lauren Shuler Donner Ivan Reitman |
| Starring | Emma Roberts Jake T. Austin Don Cheadle Troy Gentile Kyla Pratt Johnny Simmons Lisa Kudrow |
| Cinematography | Michael Grady |
| Edited by | Sheldon Kahn |
| Music by | John Debney |
| Distributed by | DreamWorks Nickelodeon Movies |
Release date | January 16, 2009 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $22,500,000 |
Hotel for Dogs is a 2009 American feature film adaptation of the Lois Duncan novel of the same name about two orphans who take in stray dogs at an empty house. The film, which began shooting November 2007, is directed by Thor Freudenthal and stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon, Kyla Pratt, and Don Cheadle. The book was adapted by Jeff Lowell and Kim Possible creators Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle. It was released on January 16, 2009.
The film is the Nickelodeon cable television network's first film to be produced by DreamWorks Pictures rather than Paramount Pictures, except for the Paramount/DreamWorks co-production Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. The film will be a DreamWorks SKG/Nickelodeon Movies presentation of a Donners' Company and Donner/Shuler-Donner production.
The Metro Station song "Shake It" was used in the promotional commercials on Nickelodeon.[citation needed]
Plot
Orphaned siblings Andi (Emma Roberts) and Bruce (Jake T. Austin), who have been forced to hide their ownership of their beloved dog, Friday, as they move from one foster home to another, secretly turn a closed hotel into a home for Friday and any other strays they can find. They are joined by a guy named Dave (Johnny Simmons) and a sexy girl named Heather (Kyla Pratt) both of whom work at a pet store and Dave and Andi have crushes on each other. They are later joined by a kid who lives nearby named Mark (Troy Gentile), who likes Heather, although she does not return the feelings. Andi and Bruce are given a chance to move from the foster home they hate to a new one that is a few hours away. They decline as they care too much about the dogs to abandon them. The kids rescue many dogs, but one night while Andi and Dave are at a party, Bruce's inventions that he built to help take care of the dogs fail and they go wild and cause so much noise that the cops are called. The dogs are taken to a pound and Bruce and Andi's dog-hating foster parents kick them out and as their social worker Bernie (Don Cheadle) cannot find them a new home that will take them both, they are sent to separate foster homes. The pound prepares to put the dogs down, but Friday escapes and gets Dave. The two reunite all of the kids and they decide to save the dogs despite the fact that they are going to get in big trouble. They break the dogs out of the pound and try to lead them over the county line to an animal shelter there that has a no kill policy, but as the dogs get close to the hotel, they turn and run there as that is their home. The kids and a massive crowd of people follow. At first the cold-hearted Animal Control tries to take them back, but Bernie, having seen what the kids did, makes a speech in favor of the dogs as the kids rescued so many strays and gave them a home, something he had been trying to do with the kids he dealt with. With donations from the people of the city the hotel ends up fixed up and turned into an actual hotel for dogs named The Hotel For Dogs. The kids all work there, Andi and Dave start going out, and Mark starts to win Heather over. Bernie and his wife end up adopting Andi and Bruce and let them keep Friday who they had had to hide from all of their foster parents.
Cast
- Emma Roberts as Andi
- Jake T. Austin as Bruce
- Don Cheadle as Bernie
- Troy Gentile as Mark
- Kyla Pratt as Heather
- Johnny Simmons as Dave
- Lisa Kudrow as Lois Scudder
- Kevin Dillon as Carl Scudder
- Ajay Naidu as ACO Jake
- Yvette Nicole Brown as Ms. Camwell
Release
The film was released on January 16, 2009 in the United States.[1]
Reception
The film has received mixed reviews. It currently holds a 45% rotten on Rotten Tomatoes, and was given a 2 star rating in the Chicago Sun Times. The film opened at #5 for the January 16-19 weekend with $17,707,000 and is estimated to have earned $22,500,000 total over the 4-day weekend.
Soundtrack
The score to Hotel for Dogs was composed by John Debney, who recorded his score at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Brothers.[2] Promo trailers for "Hotel For Dogs" contain songs such as "Run" by The Naked Brothers Band and "(Let's Get Movin') Into Action" by Skye Sweetnam.
References
- ^ Jason Buchanan. "Hotel for Dogs > Overview". Allmovie. Retrieved 2009-01-15.
- ^ Dan Goldwasser (2008-09-04). "John Debney scores Hotel for Dogs". ScoringSessions.com. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
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