Tagline: No stray gets turned away.
Hotel for Dogs is an American family comedy film based on the 1971 Lois Duncan novel of the same name. The film, directed by Thor Freudenthal and adapted by Jeff Lowell, Bob Schooley, and Mark McCorkle, stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Troy Gentile, Kyla Pratt, Johnny Simmons, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle. It tells the story of two orphans, Andi and Bruce (played by Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin), who attempt to hide their dog at an abandoned hotel after their strict new guardians tell them that pets are forbidden at their home. They also take in other dogs to avoid the dogs being taken away by two cold hearted animal pound workers and police officers.
In the family comedy-adventure “Hotel for Dogs,” Andi (Emma Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Jake T Austin) live in a strictly no-pets household and are fast running out of ways to keep their perpetually hungry dog, Friday, under wraps.
When they accidentally stumble on an abandoned hotel that is already home to a couple of resourceful strays, Andi has an idea. She taps Bruce’s mechanical genius for turning everyday objects into mechanical marvels, and, with the help of their friends in the neighborhood, transform the down-and-out hotel into a magical dog paradise – not only for Friday, but for every stray they can find. But when the barking dogs make the neighbors and the suddenly out-of-work local dog catchers suspicious, Andi and Bruce have to use every invention at their disposal to prevent them from finding out “who let the dogs in.”
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Hotel for Dogs
Hotel for Dogs
Starring: Don Cheadle, Emma Roberts, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Simmons, Troy Gentile, Robinne Lee
Directed by: Thor Freudenthal
Screenplay by: Jeff Lowell
Release Date: January 16, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for brief mild thematic elements, language and some crude humor.
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $73,034,460 (63.1%)
Foreign: $42,689,198 (36.9%)
Total: $115,723,658 (Worldwide)