Paul Hoen Movies
- 2009
When a famous author is abducted by obsessed fanboys and winds up in the clutches of two sinister brothers, it's up to his daughter and her friends to stage a daring rescue mission. All fourteen year old Melissa (Emily Osment) ever wanted was some quality time with her father Neal (George Newbern), the author of a series of popular young adult adventure novels. But Neal spends more time dreaming up missions for his fictional hero Tripp Zoome than bonding with his lonely daughter. Hoping to pry her dad away from work for just a few days, Melissa organizes a special daughter-dad vacation. Unfortunately Melissa's plan overlaps with a promotional event for her dad's latest book. Just then, Neil becomes the target of a treacherous kidnapping plot. Now in order to rescue her father and save the day, young Emily attempts to channel her "inner Zoome" and races to the rescue. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Emily Osment, George Newbern, (more)
The Cheetah Girls have been cast in a high-profile Bollywood musical, and now the trio that rocked the U.S. and grooved through Spain are about to get another eye-opening cultural experience as they set their sights on India. They've got the songs to keep India dancing, and the moves needed to make an impression on the big screen, and it's beginning to look like this unique opportunity could be precisely the big break that the Cheetah Girls' have been hoping for. Their future as a group is thrown into question, however, when Chanel (Adrienne Bailon), Aqua (Kiely Williams), and Dorinda (Sabrina Bryan) discover that they'll be in direct competition with one another to win the starring role. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan, (more)
A Brooklyn teen decides to trade in his boxing gloves for a jump rope after discovering that he has a special knack for the Double Dutch. Izzy (Corbin Bleu) is a teenager who spends most of his days perfecting his hook at the local gym. When Izzy discovers that skipping rope on the sidewalk is as much fun as sparring in the ring, he soon decides to take his fancy footwork into a whole new arena. Making the transition from a solo sport to a team sport isn't easy though, and now in order to prove that he can keep up with the best Izzy will be forced to hold his own against a talented team member (Keke Palmer) whose feet move as fast as the former boxer's fists. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Corbin Bleu, Keke Palmer, (more)
- 2004
On her 16th birthday, Darcy Deeton (Danielle Panabaker) continues to grieve over her beloved brother David (Billy Aaron Brown), who had been killed in a freak car accident exactly one year earlier. Desperate for "closure", Darcy joins her friend Sam (Ricky Ullman) on a cross-country journey to locate the person who received David's heart in a transplant operation. Hoping that the new heart will have "transformed" the recipient, Darcy is in for a major disappointment--or so it seems. Meanwhile, she must also deal with serious issues involving David's girlfriend Jayne (Corri English), who holds Darcy responsible for his death. Based on a book by Cherie Bennett, Searching for David' Heart first aired November 21, 2004 on the ABC Family Channel, and subsequently was the winner of the prestigious Humanitas Prize. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
In this adaptation of If I Had One Wish a children's novel by Jackie French Koller, 16-year-old Alex (A.J. Trauth) wishes that his pesky kid brother Stevie (Spencer Breslin) would disappear. This Stevie does -- literally. Belatedly realizing not only that he misses Stevie, but he doesn't really like being an "only child," Alex searches high and low for a way to undo his fateful wish. Looking suspiciously like the pilot for a weekly TV series, You Wish! aired January 10, 2003 over the Disney Channel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andrew James Trauth, Spencer Breslin, (more)
- 2003
Fourteen-year-old Eddie Ogden (Taylor Ball) is the best player on his baseball team. He also happens to be a natural-born chef, and it is this peculiar talent that opens him up for ridicule, not only from his fellow players, but also from the team's coach, who happens to be Eddie's father (Mark L. Taylor). After enduring such jibes as "Will he trade his baseball mitt for an oven mitt," poor Eddie is in for even more verbal abuse when he enters a prestigious cooking contest -- on the same day as the championship ballgame. Our hero's story is paralleled with that of a young girl who is being forced by her mother to try out for the cheerleading squad, even though the girl would rather play baseball. Real-life master chef Bobby Flay appears as himself in the New Zealand-filmed Eddie's Million-Dollar Cookoff, which made its Disney Channel debut on July 18, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Taylor Ball, Mark L. Taylor, (more)
