Ever wonder what happens to the animals living underground when a big construction project moves in? It's not pretty. In Hoot, some teens decide to do something about it.

Brie Larson as Beatrice the Bear Credit: New Line Cinema

Based on the young-adult novel by Carl Hiaasen, Hoot focuses on three teens speaking up and taking action to stop a pancake house chain from building on a lot that is inhabited by tiny, endangered burrowing owls.

The teens are Roy (Logan Lerman), just moved to Florida from Montana, Beatrice the Bear (Brie Larson) a tall soccer jock gal with a bad temper and Mullet Fingers (Cody Linley) a runaway living homeless in a local boat yard. Once learning about the owls, the trio combines a little minor vandalism, civil disobedience and research to stall the start of construction and save the little owls. They drive construction site manager Curly (Tim Blake Nelson) nuts and well-meaning but dorky police officer Delinko (Luke Wilson) is hot on their trail. The real bad guy is the head of the food company chain who couldn't care less about steam rolling the owls to build his latest money maker. It's up to the teens to get the whole town on their side.