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Review: Hotel for Dogs
Filed under: Theatrical Reviews », Family Films », Dreamworks »
I'm not really a dog person, myself. I prefer cats. I like cats that sleep a lot and purr and occasionally do something adorable, like trying to rip your arm off. However, I did like most of the dogs in Hotel for Dogs, especially the lead canine character, Friday the fluffy white mutt. For the most part, these dogs don't have human qualities forced upon them but are funny and sweet in a naturally canine fashion, and they run circles around the human characters in more than one way.
Friday is owned by two children, Andi (Emma Roberts) and Bruce (Jake T. Austin). The kids have been traveling from foster home to foster home since their parents died, and apparently foster parents are all mean cusses who don't allow pets, so they've been hiding poor Friday in the woods and backyards and alleys and such for three years. Friday nearly ends up in the hands of Animal Control, and as we well know from movies and TV, anyone associated with the pound is evil and sadistic. So the little dog ends up taking matters into his own, er, paws (I hate writing phrases like that) and finds his own family -- two strays who live in an abandoned hotel. One thing leads to another, and suddenly Andi and Bruce realize that there's plenty of room in this once-fancy hotel that no one seems to care about for a lot of dogs that no one else seems to care about, either.
Casting Bites: Rafi Gavron, Austin & Gentile, and Scott Michael Campbell
Filed under: Drama », Music & Musicals », Casting », Family Films »
Lolita Davidovich is heading for the web, and Chrissy Seaver is back on television, but here are some of the newest big-screen casting bites: A funky, music-laced young adult book called Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist came out this year, and it's already becoming a movie -- one starring the completely irresistible Michael Cera and struggling 40-Year-Old-Virgin teen Kat Dennings. Now Variety reports that Breaking and Entering's Rafi Gavron is also on the cast as Dev, who looks to be one of Cera's bandmates. Taking place over the course of one night, the book deals with teens who meet a punk club and fall for each other while questioning their lives and roaming through Manhattan -- something that could be a very welcome change from the usual teen fare.
Emma Roberts finally has a kid co-star for her upcoming film, Hotel for Dogs. If you remember, the film is based on a Lois Duncan children's book, and it focuses on two orphans who keep stray dogs in an abandoned hotel. IMDb has the other orphan, Bruce, listed as Jake T. Austin (Wizards of Waverly Place). So now, at least, Roberts won't be talking to empty space. Also, Variety reports that Troy Gentile has booked a role, who you might remember from his stint as a Bad News Bear, or as the young Nacho Libre. Dogs is currently filming, but won't hit theaters until 2009.
Finally, Scott Michael Campbell, who co-starred as Liddle in Flight of the Phoenix, has nabbed himself a new role, according to Variety. He's been cast alongside Djimon Hounsou and Dakota Fanning in Push -- that sci-fi flick about telekinetics and clairvoyants running from a US government agency. He's playing Agent Holden -- obviously one of the dudes that these people with powers must run from. They're currently filming the project in Hong Kong, and plan to release it next year.
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