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.
10 February 1960, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
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May 28, 2002
Its value is ultimately just as a way to keep your children quiet and pliant for ninety minutes.
January 26, 2006
An unruly orangutan plus an opulent hotel setting equals a natural disaster, or in this case a kids' movie.
December 31, 2004
I'm checking out.
January 01, 2000
Dunston Checks In -- Wish I hadn't.
December 01, 2002
Depends on your orangutan tolerance.
March 26, 2009
It's a first-class, stylish farce with a brisk pace and cool wit.
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.
July 26, 2002
Monkeys: they make any movie funnier just by being included.
May 22, 2008
Dumb chimp-gorilla-orangutan genre laughs, and forgettable.
February 19, 2013
Dunston does not, in fact, check in.
