Hotel for Dogs

Hotel for Dogs is a 2009 American teen comedy film about two kids who secretly take in stray dogs at a vacant hotel.
 * Directed by Thor Freudenthal. Written by Jeff Lowell, Bob Schooley, and Mark McCorkle, based on the 1971 Lois Duncan novel of the same name.

No stray gets turned away.taglines

Mark

 * [has Friday the dog under his jacket] What's the matter? You've never seen a husky kid in a hoodie before?

Bernie Wilkins

 * You sold a guy a rock in a box for $20.

Carl Scudder

 * [runs into the kids' bedroom while brushing his teeth] Did I leave my whitening strips in here?

Lois Scudder

 * I'm suing you, I'm suing the state, I'm suing those kids, I'm suing the guy who invented shrink wrap, I'm suing everyone!

Dialogue

 * Andi: You know, I think we might be in a little over our heads.
 * Dave: It's four-six; we're out dogged.


 * Bruce: If you look at it, dogs have three basic needs. That's-- that's eating, sleeping, and peeing and pooping.
 * Andi: That's four.
 * Bruce: No, I think peeing and pooping is one.
 * Heather: Uh, I've stepped in both and I have to disagree.


 * [Lois and Carl have discovered the hotel for dogs and find that Andi and Bruce have been stealing from them.]
 * Carl: Hey, there's my wah-wah pedal! No wonder my sound's been off.
 * Lois: [in disbelief] Yeah, that's why.
 * Carl: [he looks around the hotel] This crap is amazing.
 * Lois: Yeah, 'cause it's our crap! They've been robbing us blind!


 * [Lois and Carl have fallen down the poop chute into a dumpster full of bags of dog poop.]
 * Lois: Where are we?
 * Carl: We're in deep doo-doo.


 * [In the hotel for dogs, Lenny the dog is howling because the window blind is down.]
 * Woman on cell phone: [talking to police] Yes, I'd like to call in a complaint about a howling dog.
 * [The kids open the window blind and Lenny stops howling.]
 * Woman on cell phone: Um...never mind.


 * Andi: [the police see them where a store was broken into, the thieves just got away] We can't get in trouble again!
 * Bruce: We didn't do anything.
 * Andi: You want to tell them that?

Taglines

 * No stray gets turned away.
 * Who let the dogs in?

Cast

 * Jake T. Austin — Bruce
 * Emma Roberts — Andi
 * Johnny Simmons — Dave
 * Troy Gentile — Mark
 * Kyla Pratt — Heather
 * Don Cheadle — Bernie
 * Robinne Lee — Carol
 * Lisa Kudrow — Lois
 * Kevin Dillon — Carl