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Genres:
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Adventure /
Comedy /
Family
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Director:
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Wil Shriner
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Actors:
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Robert Donner,
Kiersten Warren,
Cody Linley,
Dean Collins,
Eric Phillips,
Jimmy Buffett,
John Archie,
Luke Wilson,
Logan Lerman,
Brie Larson,
Tim Blake Nelson,
Neil Flynn,
Clark Gregg,
Jessica Cauffiel,
Robert Wagner
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Duration:
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91 min.
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Rating:
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(5.3/10)166.5
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Plot Summary:
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Fresh kid Roy Eberhardt (Logan Lerman) is not faring well at his new set in Coconut Grove, Florida. His family recently relocated from his inamorata Montana, and immediately Roy has base himself on the bad side of State school bullies Dana (Eric Phillips) and Beatrice 'The Bear' (Brie Larson). However, when he catches note of a blonde free attendant running barefoot by the streets, Roy is strained into some rare and unique events in his new home. There have been unusual occurrences taking stead on the of land momentarily to be occupied by Mother Paula's Pancake House, whereby someone is perpe... trating well-grounded adequacy vandalism to interfere with the restaurant's opening and in have recourse to c get to work, driving the foreman, Mr Muckle (Clark Gregg in a jolly turn) crazy. After when all is said sweet Beatrice's friendship, Roy meets the culprit: her stepbrother - Mullet Fingers (Cody Linley). The childlike guy has taken it upon himself to stop the construction and save the rare burrowing owls that loaded on the premises. As the three ecological vigilantes resort to at all times more strong measures to save the owls, Roy realises their only hope lies in bringing the issue to the plain's regard. Jimmy Buffet makes his inauguration as a fabricator in this ecologically minded species film, based on the most qualified-selling novel by Carl Hiaasen. Charming, fun and carrying an important report, HOOT overcomes its more incredible aspects be means of an uncontrollable opportune funniness that audiences can't help but be swept along by. Luke Wilson (BOTTLE ROCKET) steals the show as a bumbling man-son who somehow managed to happen to a police officer, while Buffet himself appears as a kindly, laid-isolated, marine biology schoolma'm.
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Hoot
Joe LeydonHoot is a lightweight, eco-conscious kidpic about three youths uniting to protect endangered owls from developers in South Florida. New Line release is opening as counterprogramming to presumptive blockbuster Mission: Impossible III. But the pic's dawdling pace, predictable plotting and absence of marquee players will likely make mom and dad think twice about chaperoning. Squeaky-clean, family-friendly opus should fly higher in homevid.
Making his feature filmmaking debut, vet TV helmer (and former talkshow host) Wil Shriner has adapted -- faithfully, if not thrillingly -- an award-winning young-adult novel by Carl Hiaasen, the Florida-based author better known for adult-skewing tomes such as Strip Tease and Skinny Dip.
Middle-schooler Roy Eberha...
Hoot
Claudia PuigHoot isn't really meant to be a hoot, in the comedic sense, but it does center on a brood of owls.
Based on the best seller by Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen (it was the novelist's first children's book), the film doesn't measure up to the written version, mostly because of a lagging pace and uneven performances. Logan Lerman plays Roy, an eighth-grader who moves from Montana to a sleepy Florida town where he spots a population of endangered owls and stumbles on a plot to destroy their habitat. He and two other kids (Brie Larson and Cody Linley) take on a rapacious land developer and slimy city officials and elude a bumbling cop.
Co-producer and famous Floridian Jimmy Buffett co-stars as a science teacher. Adopting a change in attitude seems...
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