The dog hotel
Hotel for Dogs (original title: Hotel for Dogs ) is a family - comedy from 2009 directed by Thor Freudenthal with Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin in the lead roles. The script is based on the 1971 novel Hotel for Dogs by the youth writer Lois Duncan .
action
16-year-old Andi and her 11-year-old brother Bruce have been living with foster parents for three years . Lois and Carl Scudder, with whom they have been living for two months, are already their fifth foster family. They secretly keep a dog named Friday that they have to hide from their foster parents. During an excursion, Friday is brought to the shelter by dog catchers . Andi and Bruce find him and take him back with them. On the way home Friday runs into a run-down hotel that has been empty for some time. When they follow Friday, they discover that there are two stray dogs living there. Since your dog immediately feels at home there, they come up with the idea of setting up a secret refuge for dogs there. Over time, there are more and more dogs and ultimately it can no longer be hidden, so that in the end the police, animal catchers, onlookers and the television storm the entrance hall of the hotel. But thanks to the intervention of Bernie, the youth welfare office employee responsible for the children, everything comes to a happy end: the children are adopted by Bernie and his wife and the hotel is reopened as an official dog hotel.
background
- During the credits, actors and staff members of the film are shown with their animals, including executive producer Ivan Reitman with his dogs and director Thor Freudenthal with his cat.
- The Hundehotel is the first feature film directed by Thor Freudenthal, having previously made several short films.
- The author of the novel, Lois Duncan , has a guest appearance in the film: towards the end of the film, when a crowd gathers in the hotel, she can be seen briefly in the picture.
- In the scene in which Lois and Carl meet the mechanical sheep in the hotel in the dark, the film music from the well-known shower scene from Psycho is played.
- The theatrical release in the USA was on January 23, 2009, in Germany the film started on February 5, 2009. On free-to-air television, the film premiered on Sat.1 on March 17, 2012.
- Every dog with a major role in the film had at least one doppelganger and was played by two or three different dogs who specialized in certain activities. Friday is a Jack Russell Terrier , Lenny is a Mastiff , Shep is a Border Collie , Henry is a Beauceron , Georgia is a Boston Terrier , Cooper is an English Bulldog , Romeo is a Chinese Crested Dog, and Juliet is a Poodle .
synchronization
The German dubbing was done by Interopa Film . For dialogue book and dialogue director was Nana Spier responsible.
| Role name | actor | German voice |
|---|---|---|
| And I | Emma Roberts | Lisa Mitsching |
| Bruce | Jake T. Austin | Sebastian Kluckert |
| Bernie | Don Cheadle | Dietmar miracle |
| Dave | Johnny Simmons | Patrick Baehr |
| Heather | Kyla Pratt | Victoria Frenz |
| mark | Troy Gentile | Daniel Claus |
| Lois Scudder | Lisa Kudrow | Sabine Jaeger |
| Carl Scudder | Kevin Dillon | Tobias Kluckert |
| Carol | Robinne Lee | Vera Teltz |
| Jason | Kenny Vibert | Nick Forsberg |
| ACO Dooley | Gregory Sporleder | Matthias Klages |
Reviews
“An entertaining family film that skillfully builds arcs of tension between dramatic and soulful scenes and advocates values such as friendship and (animal) love. He unfolds a special charm thanks to ludicrous ideas and a portion of anarchic humor. "
“With his directorial debut, Thor Freudenthal succeeded in creating animal adventure fun, in which not only big and small dog lovers get their money's worth, but also all fans of classic family entertainment, where the original and the humorous, the exciting and the animal-thrilling come together hold."
"... there are mainly smart young people and admirably well-trained dogs to be seen in an unusual atmosphere."
“The Hotel for Dogs reviews are amazingly friendly. But you don't have to pull out the heavy criticism of a nice, sometimes amusing comedy about a home for stray dogs. With all the misery that will again prevail in the films of the Berlinale, such a little pleasure is definitely to be appreciated. "
Web links
- Hotel for Dogs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The dog hotel in the lexicon of international film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Das Hundehotel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2009 (PDF; test number: 116 639 K).
- ^ The dog hotel in Kino.de from February 5, 2009
- ↑ Children take good care of animals in a family comedy in Berliner Zeitung on February 5, 2009
- ^ In the Waldi-Inn in Die Tageszeitung on February 5, 2009