Hoot

I watched the DVD "Hoot" based on the book by one of my favorite authors - Carl Hiaasen.

Synopsis

Middle schooler Roy Eberhardt (Logan Lerman) is the perpetual new kid on the block. He's moved so many times because of his father's job that he's lost track of how many schools he's attended and how many towns he's lived in. This time, he's left the big sky country of Montana for the tropical sun belt of Florida and a sleepy Gulf Coast hamlet called Coconut Cove. Along with his new friends, he unearths a disturbing threat to a local population of endangered owls. He's determined to protect his new environment, taking on greedy land developers, corrupt politicians and clueless cops. The clueless cop (Luke Wilson) is in some of the funnier scenes in the movie. Roy's science teacher is Jimmy Buffett and the author Carl Hiaasen makes a brief apearance as Felix.