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Hotel for Dogs

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Original title

Hotel for Dogs

Year

2009

Running time

100 min.

Country

United States

Director

Thor Freudenthal

Screenwriter

Jeff Lowell, Robert Schooley, Mark McCorkle. Novel: Lois Duncan

Cast

Music

John Debney

Cinematography

Michael Grady

Producer

DreamWorks SKG, Nickelodeon Movies, Cold Spring Pictures

Genre

Comedy | Animals. Dogs/Wolves. Family-friendly

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Lois Duncan Adaptations

Synopsis

Based on Lois Duncan's novel, the story revolves around two orphaned teenagers who hide dozens of stray dogs in an abandoned hotel. "Hotel for Dogs" is a comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new guardians forbid 16-year-old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce, from having a pet, Andi has to use her quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for Friday - and eventually for all Friday's friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in."

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Critics' reviews

"A lively, funny, imaginative film that should appeal to kids and their pet-loving parents."

Connie Ogle: Miami Herald
"A bright, funny family movie that gets everything right, from story to production design to cast (both human and canine)."

Andrea Gronvall: Chicago Reader
"Hotel for Dogs is agreeable Saturday afternoon multiplex piffle - friendly, formulaic, completely harmless."

Ty Burr: Boston Globe
"The movie's best moments involve the pooches living in a once-elegant hotel. But the human dramas are less involving (...) it's hard to resist this lively, though predictable, family movie. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)."

Claudia Puig: USA Today
"It's no great shakes as a film, but its combination of mild comedy, slapstick, pathos, many photogenic canines and a positive message will make it irresistible to families."

Walter Addiego: SFgate
"At its best, the movie is a catalog of doggy stunts."

Carrie Rickey: Philadelphia Inquirer
"Kids will be as enthralled by this film as you were by the live-action Disney movies of the '70s. It doesn't get any sweeter than a roomful of mattresses with kids and dogs jumping on them."

Kyle Smith: New York Post
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