Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11140 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-09-25
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 91 minutes

Synopsis
New kid Roy Eberhardt (Logan Lerman) is not faring well at his new school in Coconut Grove, Florida. His family recently relocated from his beloved Montana, and immediately Roy has found himself on the bad side of school bullies Dana (Eric Phillips) and Beatrice 'The Bear' (Brie Larson). However, when he catches sight of a blonde wild boy running barefoot through the streets, Roy is drawn into some strange and unique events in his new home. There have been odd occurrences taking place on the plot of land soon to be occupied by Mother Paula's Pancake House, whereby someone is perpetrating just enough vandalism to interfere with the restaurant's opening and in turn, driving the foreman, Mr Muckle (Clark Gregg in a hilarious turn) crazy. After eventually winning Beatrice's friendship, Roy meets the culprit: her stepbrother - Mullet Fingers (Cody Linley). The young lad has taken it upon himself to stop the construction and save the rare burrowing owls that live on the premises. As the three ecological vigilantes resort to ever more drastic measures to save the owls, Roy realises their only hope lies in bringing the issue to the public's attention. Jimmy Buffet makes his debut as a producer in this ecologically minded family film, based on the best-selling novel by Carl Hiaasen. Charming, fun and carrying an important message, HOOT overcomes its more incredible aspects through an irresistible good humour that audiences can't help but be swept along by. Luke Wilson (BOTTLE ROCKET) steals the show as a bumbling man-child who somehow managed to become a police officer, while Buffet himself appears as a kindly, laid-back, marine biology teacher.

Customer Reviews

Family film is more radical than it seems

In "Hoot", a new kid arrives to Florida from Montana. He first faces the usual problems of blending in and dealing with the local bully. Soon, though, he becomes aware of a bigger problem: a franchise restaurant chain is trying to build a site in the town, right where a number of burrowing owls live. This movie has the look of a family film, but it is pretty more radical than it seems, as it shows sympathetically how Roy and a couple of friends do not shy away from lawbreaking (including vandalism of private property and briefly kidnapping the manager of the chain of restaurants) in the name of environmentalism (to save owls, no less). Now, one might agree or not with those actions, but at least the movie has the courage from not shying away from its convictions. A good, solid film, all in all.

THE BEST MOVIE OF 2006 DO NOT SAY IS CRAP BECAUSE IT IS NOT
Hey excuse me people but this is a great film i read the book first for a english school project the book was rubbish, i dident like it has much as the film becuase the book was plain.

the fil well the film was good i enjoed it better than reading the stupid book we did a 6-8 week prject on this one paticular thing. it was a fun project at the end of the topic we watched the film at school it was awesome i enjoed the last 2 lessons on it.

its a awesome film,
and stupid people cant see it,
the actors are grea
LOGANN LERMAN IS HOT.

Watchable
I read Carl Hiaasen's book before i watched the film. The book was 10 times better. I suppose this film is OK. The kids' acting is not spectacular and their cuteness and American accents annoyed me. For me, it was too much 'cute little kids, with cute accents, living in a cute town, going on a cute little adventure to save the cute little baby owls.' The book wasn't like that at all. Otherwise it was quite good.
Luke Wilson was fairly entertaining, and the message was a good one.
Harmless entertainment for kids.