Hoot

2006
PG
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

YOUR RATING

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Adventure Comedy Family

A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.

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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations total

Videos16

Hoot Scene: Easy Montage

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Hoot Scene: Don't Freak Out

Photos24

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Trivia
After reviewing Mother Paula's commercial at the corporate headquarters, the man who enters the room to inform Muckle (Clark Gregg) of a waiting phone call is Carl Hiaasen, the author of the book.

Goofs
The "hoot" sound effects used in the movie are not those of burrowing owls, which have a high-pitched call approximately two octaves higher, but that of a much larger owl, the great horned owl.

Quotes
Beatrice Leep: Hey, cowgirl.
Roy Eberhardt: Yeah?
Beatrice Leep: I'm really glad that... You know what, I'm just gonna call you "Roy" from now on. If that's all right with you.
Roy Eberhardt: And what's wrong with Ling Ho?
[She laughs and hits him with a pillow]

Crazy credits
At the end of the closing credits, an owl is seen in the screen box staring at the camera.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Mission Impossible III/Hoot/Down in the Valley/An American Haunting/Killer Diller/The Proposition (2006)

Soundtracks
Good Guys Win
Written by Roger Guth & Mac McAnally
Performed by Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band
Jimmy Buffett appears courtesy of Mailboat Records, Inc.

User reviews78

Featured review

7/10

Plain and simple, a NICE movie

My family (two 40-somethings, an 8 year old and my 71 yr old mother) saw this at a sneak preview on April 29th. We all enjoyed the movie very much. The story was a good one, and knowing it was based on real-life events made it that much more enjoyable. Luke Wilson was a hoot (pun intended) to watch as was Tim Blake Nelson. And seeing Neil Flynn play something other than "the mean janitor from Scrubs" was nice. The kids in movie did well and I'm sure they will all appeal to a certain demographic on the heartthrob level. The visuals were just lovely and the Jimmy Buffet music added to the "Florida feel". OK, maybe the story was a little too neat and well packaged for some adults, but hey, who cares? I can't compare it to the book, I honestly hadn't heard of it until the movie came out.

It was just a NICE movie and it had a good message. Plain and simple.