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Hotel for Dogs
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Directed by	Thor Freudenthal
Produced by	Lauren Shuler Donner Ivan Reitman
Written by	Novel Lois Duncan Screenplay Jeff Lowell Bob Schooley Mark McCorkle
Starring	Emma Roberts Jake T. Austin Don Cheadle Troy Gentile Kyla Pratt Johnny Simmons Lisa Kudrow
Music by	John Debney
Release date(s)	January 16, 2009
Running time	100 min.
Language	English
Budget	$25 million
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Hotel for Dogs is a 2009 American feature film adaptation of the Lois Duncan novel of the same name about two orphans who take in stray dogs at an empty house. The film, which began shooting November 2007, is directed by Thor Freudenthal and stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon, Kyla Pratt, and Don Cheadle. The book was adapted by Jeff Lowell and Kim Possible creators Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle. It was released on January 16, 2009.

The film is the Nickelodeon cable television network's first film to be produced by DreamWorks Pictures rather than Paramount Pictures, except for the Paramount/DreamWorks co-production Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. The film was a DreamWorks SKG/Nickelodeon Movies presentation of a Donners' Company and Donner/Shuler-Donner production.

The Metro Station song "Shake It" was used in the promotional commercials on Nickelodeon.^{[citation needed]}

Plot

Orphaned siblings Andi (Emma Roberts) and Bruce (Jake T. Austin), who have been forced to hide their ownership of their beloved dog, Friday, as they move from one foster home to another, secretly turn a closed hotel into a home for Friday and any other strays they can find. They are joined by a guy named Dave (Johnny Simmons) and a girl named Heather (Kyla Pratt) both of whom work at a pet store and Dave and Andi have crushes on each other. They are later joined by a kid who lives nearby named Mark (Troy Gentile), who likes Heather, although she does not return the feelings. Andi and Bruce are given a chance to move from the foster home they hate to a new one that is a few hours away. They decline as they care too much about the dogs to abandon them.

The kids rescue many dogs, but one night while Andi and Dave are at a party, Bruce's inventions that he built to help take care of the dogs fail and they go wild and cause so much noise that the cops are called. The dogs are taken to a pound and Bruce and Andi's dog-hating foster parents kick them out and as their social worker Bernie (Don Cheadle) cannot find them a new home that will take them both, they are sent to separate foster homes. The pound prepares to put the dogs down, but Friday escapes and gets Dave.

The two reunite all of the kids and they decide to save the dogs despite the fact that they are going to get in big trouble. They break the dogs out of the pound and try to lead them over the county line to an animal shelter there that has a no kill policy, but as the dogs get close to the hotel, they turn and run there as that is their home. The kids and a massive crowd of people follow. At first Animal Control tries to take them back, but Bernie, having seen what the kids did, makes a speech in favor of the dogs as the kids rescued so many strays and gave them a home, something he had been trying to do with the kids he dealt with.

With donations from the people of the city the hotel ends up fixed up and turned into an actual hotel for dogs named The Hotel For Dogs. The kids all work there, Andi and Dave kiss, and Mark starts to win Heather over. Bernie and his wife end up adopting Andi and Bruce and let them keep Friday who they had to hide from all of their foster parents.

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