Rating: PG
Genre:
Children's/Family
Theatrical Release: 01/16/2009(USA)
Release Date: 04/28/2009
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Por
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DTHD/DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 100 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Scatological Humor
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
Adapted from author
Lois Duncan's 1971
children's book of the same name, director
Thor Freudenthal's
Hotel for Dogs follows two mischievous orphans as they attempt to hide dozens of stray dogs in an abandoned hotel. Disheartened by their new guardians' announcement that pets are strictly forbidden, 16-year-old
Andi (
Emma Roberts) and her younger brother,
Bruce (
Jake T. Austin), race to find a home for their loyal dog
Friday. Fortunately for
Friday, there's an abandoned hotel just around the corner, and
Bruce possesses just the kind of mechanical smarts needed to transform the rundown inn into a four-star retreat for canines. For a while,
Friday and his friends have it made, but when the neighbors start to get suspicious,
Andi and
Bruce resort to every trick in the book in order to prevent their secret from being discovered.
Don Cheadle,
Emma Roberts, and
Lisa Kudrow star in a family-friendly film penned by screenwriter
Jeff Lowell.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
;)
