Hoot is an American comedy film directed by Wil Shriner. The film stars Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Neil Flynn, and Robert Wagner.
Plot[]
Middle school student Roy A. Eberhardt and his parents have moved to six different places due to work. Roy loved their home in Montana because of the beautiful scenery and felt at home. Sadly though, he and his parents have to move again this time to Coconut Cove, Florida. Roy is mercilessly teased and bullied at his new school by Dana Matherson, Roy does manage to befriend his classmate Garrett. The next day Roy accidentally breaks Matherson's nose while getting harassed on the school bus and struggling to get free. As a result, Roy gets suspended from riding the school bus for three days and must write Dana an apology letter as a punishment. Roy slowly becomes friends with Beatrice "The Bear" Leep who he gets off to a bad start with and her stepbrother "Mullet Fingers" who Roy has seen running down the street without shoes on.
Meanwhile, an unknown person is found to be responsible for sabotaging a local construction site where a "Mother Paula's Pancake House" restaurant, overseen by corrupt regional manager Chuck Muckle, is about to be built. In order to catch the trespassers and prevent further vandalism, Officer David Delinko has parked his police car on the building site. Delinko falls asleep and an unknown prankster vandalizes the car by spray-painting its windows black. The next day at breakfast, Roy and his parents read about the spray-painted police car. The police chief then gives Delinko a small police scooter to replace the vandalized car.
Soon, Roy learns that in order to build the pancake house, they must first kill the burrowing owls living on site. Mullet Fingers has been covertly pulling pranks to stop construction (including the tagging of Delinko's car), but Beatrice must take Roy into their confidence when he is badly bitten by guard dogs. Roy joins their crusade to save the endangered owls. Leroy "Curly" Branitt, the beleaguered construction foreman, is trying to keep the construction schedule going, despite the presence of the owls, because of daily abuse from Muckle over the phone, and later in person.
The trio reveals to Delinko and the rest of the town that there are burrowing owls on the lot. They then manage to get everyone to be quiet long enough for the owls to emerge, and Delinko places Muckle in handcuffs. Kimberly, the actress who plays Mother Paula, offers Coconut Cove the site as an owl preserve in the interest of damage control and publicly fires Muckle. The mayor of Crystal Cove approves the idea completely with the support of the crowd
Roy's parents decide to stay in Florida. Officer Delinko finally gets promoted to detective and gets an unmarked patrol car (until he accidentally backs it off a fishing pier). Dana is sent off to military school as punishment, where he gets bullied by the drill sergeants as payback for his own mean attitude. Muckle does community service for 90 days (then, after he is hit in the head and knocked unconscious by a falling coconut, the judge extends his sentence to 30 more days for lying down on the job). The land is donated and turned into an animal sanctuary so the owls can continue to live there. Curly and Kimberly leave Mother Paula's Pancake House to raise dogs, and Roy continues to be friends with Beatrice and Mullet Fingers.
Cast[]
- Luke Wilson as Officer David Delinko
- Logan Lerman as Roy A. Eberhardt
- Brie Larson as Beatrice "The Bear" Leep
- Tim Blake Nelson as Leroy "Curly" Brannit
- Neil Flynn as Mr. Eberhardt
- Robert Wagner as Mayor Grandy
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