After changing a new home for the guppy fishes just now and cleared a little mess, I got so tired and thought of resting a while at the sofa. While resting, I managed to watch a movie over HBO channel titled Hotel for Dogs. After the story ended, I guess maybe i wanted to watch again. The dogs are so adorable. Its about orphaned sister and brother who set up a secret refuge for stray dogs. Wished crystle is well trained like any one of the dogs.
Got the synopsis of the story from wikipedia and I would like to share with all who dropped by here: Here goes the story of the show: Enjoy reading them...
Cast
* Johnny Simmons as Dave: The young manager of a local pet store who helps Andi and Bruce rescue stray dogs and care for them at the hotel. He and Andi fall for each other and begin a romance. Simmons signed up for the project in late 2007, around the same time as Lisa Kudrow.
* Jake T. Austin as Bruce: The 11-year old brother of Andi with a knack for mechanics. His inventions help keep the stray dogs living at the hotel fed and entertained while he and his sister are away. Nearly 80 boys tried out for the part before Austin was cast as Bruce. Austin was impressed by the rest of the cast and said in an interview: "Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle are three of my favorite actors of all time.
* Emma Roberts as Andi: A 16-year old orphan who, along with her brother Bruce, has lived with a number of foster parents before ending up with Lois and Carl Scudder. Roberts was cast in late 2007[8] and "knew as soon as soon as she started reading the script for Hotel for Dogs, she wanted to be part of the movie.
* Don Cheadle as Bernie Wilkins: A straight-shooting, sympathetic social worker who tries his best to find a home for Andi and Bruce and to prevent them from being placed with separate foster families. Cheadle joined the cast in September 2007.[10] He described the film as "an opportunity to do a film that my kids can see" and praised both Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin as being "really professional. They showed up to do the work and were serious and took it seriously and had acting coaches and everything.
* Robinne Lee as Carol Wilkins: Bernie's wife who initially tells her husband not to get too emotionally involved with the children he works with, but eventually agrees to adopt Andi and Bruce to prevent them from being separated in different homes.
* Troy Gentile as Mark: A young kid who lives near Andi and Bruce and is eager to help with the dogs at the hotel.
* Kyla Pratt as Heather: An employee at the pet store who also wants to help rescue stray dogs. Pratt joined the film after she learned that Don Cheadle was also working on the project. She said in an interview that, "They were telling me about all the different people who were gonna be in it, and I saw Don Cheadle's name, and I'm like, oh, absolutely." She also said of her co-star Emma Roberts that, "Emma is so much fun to be around and she's hilarious. Emma's great because I wasn't sure how everything was going to be, because I was older than the other actors in the movie".
* Lisa Kudrow as Lois Scudder: The controlling, wannabe rock star foster mother of Andi and Bruce. Kudrow signed up for the film in October 2007[13]. It was her first time working with dogs in a film. She said that her co-star Emma Roberts "was one of the draws for me to do this.
* Kevin Dillon as Carl Scudder: An aging rocker who refuses to give up on his dreams of becoming a star. Carl is Lois' clueless husband and the foster father of Andy and Bruce. Dillon was cast in November 2007.[15] Dillon said in an interview that singing and playing guitar during the band practice scenes was "one of the things that was the most fun" while filming.
* Kenny Vibert as Jason: Dave's best friend who lives in the Scudder's neighborhood.
The story of Hotel for Dogs the movie:
The movie begins in Central City. Siblings Andi and Bruce are shown defrauding a pawn shop owner to raise money to feed their dog, Friday. Soon afterwards, the pawn shop owner approaches them with a police officer, pointing Andi out as the culprit. As she tries to talk her way out of trouble, Bruce's backpack falls and its contents spill out, revealing his scamming supplies.
They are arrested and taken to the local police station, where their social worker, Bernie, meets them. He scolds them and says that because they have changed foster homes so many times, they may be separated the next time they do so. Bernie then takes them home to their foster parents, aspiring rock stars Lois and Carl Scudder.
The two are angry that the children have missed dinner (and delayed band practice) and Bernie takes responsibility. Andi and Bruce are sent to their room for the night, where they have hidden Friday from their guardians.
In the morning, Friday wanders out of the room into the apartment and is almost seen by Lois. The kids attempt to get him back into their room, trying to hide what they are doing, and eventually do so without Lois realizing what is going on.
Once back in the room, however, Friday uses a homemade elevator, designed and built by Bruce, to leave the apartment through the window and is picked up by animal control. Andi and Bruce are desperate to find Friday and scour the area looking for him. They enter a pet store and ask the manager, Dave, and employee Heather, whether they have seen Friday. Neither of them has, but they suggest visiting the local pound to see if he is there. At the pound, Andi and Bruce discover Friday is indeed there, but must bribe one of the officers to get him released.
On the way home, they encounter a burglary in progress at a store and as the police arrive they flee to a nearby abandoned hotel to avoid being fingered as the culprits. Friday again gets away from them and they search the building to find him. As they do, they hear strange noises – which they discover to be two dogs that have taken up shelter. With them is Friday, and Andi and Bruce decide to leave him in the hotel for the night and return home.
The next day, the two kids steal from the refrigerator to take to the hungry dogs. At the hotel, they find that one of the dogs howling because the shades had been drawn. The kids return to the pet store to get more food, and lie to Dave, claiming that their parents are dog rescuers. Heather follows them back to the hotel and announces that she wants to help. They are later joined by another kid, Mark. Bruce builds a number of contraptions to keep the dogs fed and entertained while they are alone in the hotel. They decide to take in all the stray dogs they can find.
Andi is invited to a party. She sneaks out of the apartment and shows up. However, she is recognized by Dave's best friend, Jason who tells Dave and Heather that she is actually a foster child. Upset, she runs from the party to the hotel, where the dogs are running wild. The police storm the hotel, arrest the kids and get the dogs. Bernie and his wife, Carol, tell them that there is nothing more they can do. The dogs are scheduled to be euthanized and Andi and Bruce are sent to separate foster homes.
Meanwhile, in the animal control station, Friday escapes from his leash just like what he did from the beginning of the film, and runs to Dave. They pick up Andi and Bruce, sneak into the pound, and release the dogs, which all of them follow the truck with some sausages, but the dogs go to the hotel. As they pass the hotel, however, the dogs run inside and a standoff ensues with the police and an animal control member tells the police to arrest Andi, Bruce, Dave, and Heather. Bernie gives an emotional speech and tells Andi and Bruce that he and Carol are adopting them, the police allow them that the dogs to stay in the hotel. Angry by this, the animal control workers run off outside. Also, Bernie and Carol love dogs and have no problem with the kids keeping Friday.
Pressured by the media at the scene, the police are persuaded to allow the dogs to remain at the hotel, which is eventually restored as a full-fledged canine retreat where the kids and even some of the dogs work and the new hotel is like a real hotel with some restaurant, entertainment, salon, adoption, bellboy, rooms, massage and more.
source taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/
Poster source taken from: http://blogs.woodtv.com/
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