Hoot (2006)

Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations

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 The Colbert Report: Frank Rich (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.

Nothing real remarkable about the movie. Pleasant is a good way to describe it. Now on to some quibbles. This is one of several movies I seem to have seen of late where a protagonist does several things that should land them in jail for a long time, yet there are no consequences.

Luke Wilson is as vapid as ever.

I honestly thought they might be taking the relationship between the two very good-looking young men in a certain direction, but the movie was made in 2006 and perhaps audiences would not have been accepting of that then. What's really notable is Mullet's impossibly white teeth. He seems awfully young to have had them "done". If not, they are amazing.

The soundtrack is pleasant, like the rest, and Jimmy Buffett even has a role as a teacher.