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Dunston Checks In
Young boy befriends larcenous orangutan, who has been trained to be a thief's partner in crime in luxury hotel. Now, things are getting complicated for his father, who is super busy at work.
22 July 1942, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 April 1969, Beverly Hills, California, USA
15 April 1952, Bessemer, Alabama, USA
4 May 1930, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
30 July 1968, Abington, Pennsylvania, USA
2 August 1971, South Carolina, USA
29 May 1959, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, England, UK
22 May 1917, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 March 1977, Palo Alto, California, USA
8 March 1964, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
21 February 1919, Ford City, Pennsylvania, USA
1976, Newberry Park, California, USA
23 September 1959, Newark, New Jersey, USA
May 28, 2002
Its value is ultimately just as a way to keep your children quiet and pliant for ninety minutes.
December 01, 2002
Depends on your orangutan tolerance.
January 01, 2000
Dunston Checks In -- Wish I hadn't.
February 19, 2013
Dunston does not, in fact, check in.
July 26, 2002
Monkeys: they make any movie funnier just by being included.
March 26, 2009
It's a first-class, stylish farce with a brisk pace and cool wit.
May 22, 2008
Dumb chimp-gorilla-orangutan genre laughs, and forgettable.
December 31, 2004
I'm checking out.
January 01, 2000
There isn't much of a story. The minimal plot exists exclusively to get the orangutan Dunston (played by "Sam") into as many odd, potentially-comic circumstances as possible.
January 26, 2006
An unruly orangutan plus an opulent hotel setting equals a natural disaster, or in this case a kids' movie.
