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When their new guardians forbid 16-year old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce to have a pet, Andi has to use her quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for Friday--and eventually for all Friday's friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in."

My kids loved the scenes with the dogs and the inventions. It felt like the type of movie I used to watch as a kid. A movie made for the amusement of kids and a saturday matinees and not a movie with adult humor disquised as a kid film. Was it deep in content? No. Was it fun and amusing? Absolutely. Made us feel like we should adopt a dog and/or a kid at the end :)

Logline: A teen secretly fills a vacant house with stray dogs after she moves in with her fastidious aunt and has to leave behind the dog who's her best friend.

Genres: Comedy, Kids/Family and Adaptation

Release Date: January 16th, 2009 (wide)

MPAA Rating: PG for brief mild thematic elements, language and some crude humor.

Distributors: Paramount Pictures

Production Co.: Donners Company, The Montecito Picture Company

Studios: DreamWorks

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, United States

Produced in: United States