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- “Hoot” is based on a Newberry Award-winning novel by Carl Hiaasen, the Florida novelist. That gives it a provenance but not a pedigree.
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Hoot is a 2006 American family comedy film, based on Carl Hiaasen's novel of the same name. It was written and directed by Wil Shriner , and produced by New Line Cinema and Walden Media . The film stars Luke Wilson , Logan Lerman , Brie Larson , Tim Blake Nelson , Neil Flynn and Robert Wagner .
Hoot: Directed by Wil Shriner. With Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson. A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.
- (8.9K)
- Adventure, Comedy, Family
- Wil Shriner
- 2006-05-05
May 4, 2006 · “Hoot” has its heart in the right place, but I have been unable to locate its brain. Here is a movie about three kids who begin by disliking or fearing one another, and end up as urban guerrillas sabotaging the construction of a pancake house that will destroy a nesting ground for burrowing owls.
Three middle-schoolers take on greedy land developers, corrupt politicians, and clueless cops in the mystery adventure "Hoot" based on Carl Hiaasen's Newbery Honor-winning book.
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- Damaris Justamante
- Will Shriner
Roy Eberhardt (Logan Lerman) is a teenager who loves living in the wide open spaces and mountains of Montana. Unfortunately for him, his father's job is forcing him to move once again, this time to a small town in Florida. As the new kid in school, Roy has the usual encounter with the school bully on the bus.
A young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.
Based on the Newbery Award–winning novel for young readers by Louis Sachar, Holes was refreshingly free of the usual Hollywood dumbing-down, sticking remarkably close to its source material and delivering a potent blend of mystery, hardship, excitement and fate.
