Logan Lerman (WB’s “Jack & Bobby,” The Patriot, The Butterfly Effect) stars as Roy, the Montana transplant whose valiant efforts to protect the environment endear him to his new Florida schoolmates.
Luke Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Old School, My Dog Skip) also toplines the cast as Officer David Delinko, the earnest, unenlightened local Coconut Cove cop investigating some mysterious incidents at the proposed construction site.
Hoot also boasts a cast of some of Hollywood’s upcoming young talent, including Brie Larson (13 Going on 30, TV’s “Raising Dad”) as Beatrice, the scrappy fellow 8th grader who embraces Roy’s assistance in saving the owls; Cody Linley (My Dog Skip, Rebound, Cheaper by the Dozen) as Mullet Fingers, the vagrant runaway who spearheads the kids’ attempt to foil the restaurant’s groundbreaking plans; Eric Phillips, in his very first motion picture, as Dana Matherson, the towering school bully who painfully antagonizes Roy upon his arrival at Trace Middle School; and Dean Collins (WB’s “Jack & Bobby,” Fox’s “The War at Home”) as the goofy screwball Garrett, Roy’s first friend at Trace.
The film’s adult co-stars, a veteran cast of familiar faces, includes Kiersten Warren (13Going on 30, Intolerable Cruelty) and Neil Flynn (NBC’s “Scrubs,” Mean Girls) as Roy’s tolerant, yet exasperated, parents; Tim Blake Nelson (Holes, Minority Report, O Brother,Where Art Thou?) as the besieged, outwitted construction foreman, Curly Branitt; Clark Gregg (State and Main, One Hour Photo) as the sinister pancake house executive, Chuck Muckle; Jessica Cauffiel (Legally Blonde, D.E.B.S., White Chicks) as the vivacious actress who dons wig and aged makeup to portray the eatery’s matronly namesake, Mother Paula; and longtime Hollywood star Robert Wagner (Austin Powers trilogy, TV’s “Hart to Hart”), who embodies Coconut Cove’s slick municipal leader, Mayor Grandy.
