Life Is Ruff

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Life is Ruff
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Directed by	Charles Haid
Produced by	Don Schain John Davis
Written by	Eddie Guzelian
Starring	Kyle Massey Mitchel Musso Kay Panabaker Carter Jenkins Mark Christopher Lawrence Judith Moreland
Music by	David Kitay
Cinematography	Gordon Lonsdale
Editing by	Benjamin D. Stokes
Distributed by	Disney Channel
Release date(s)	July 15, 2005
Running time	84 min.
Country
Language	English
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Life is Ruff is a 2005 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Kyle Massey and Mitchel Musso.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Trivia
4 Goofs
5 External links

[edit] Plot

13-year-old Calvin Wheeler (Kyle Massey) is the most popular kid at school who collects comic books in his spare time. Calvin's best friend is Raymond Figg (Mitchel Musso), who prefers to be called Figg. He saved Figg's life in the second grade when Figg had an asthma attack, and Figg, very devoted, manages his schedule and occasionally does his homework.

Gotham Man is the name of Calvin's favorite comic. His collection is complete, except for one issue that's ever-so-rare, the first one, it's worth $3,000. When a show-dog runs after Calvin while skateboarding, he finds out that when one wins a dog show, they earn major cash. The cash prize is the amount of money Calvin needs to buy the first issue of Gotham Man.

Calvin goes to a dog rescue shelter and adopts a dog named Tyco. A girl from school and a shelter volunteer, Emily Watson (Kay Panabaker), believes that this had to be another one of the crazy schemes or plans that Calvin has in mind. So she invites them to the park and then realizes that Calvin is caring for the dog. But she hasn't found out one thing: Calvin is using the dog to get cash. One day, the dog runs away, enraging Emily to the point it was believed she would kill Calvin. Figg and Calvin come up with another plan. He makes Figg pretend he is selling magazines and fake an asthma attack. When this happens, Calvin runs into the basement and rescues the dog while Figg is still acting. But there's someone else who wants to make sure Calvin and Tyco lose and that's Preston Price (Carter Jenkins), the stuck-up rich kid whom he and his dog have won all the past dog shows. Calvin and Emily reunite. This is the day of the dog show and they decide to go. Calvin's dad drives them there. Of course they are not prepared and can't really have Tyco compete. So he still makes into the finals and wins the cash. But instead of being a selfish person and using that money to buy a comic book he uses the money for good. He gives the money to the shelter so that the dogs can have better homes. Emily and Figg have once been actually proud of their friend in a once-in-a-lifetime chance.

[edit] Cast

Kyle Massey - Calvin Wheeler
Kay Panabaker - Emily Watson
Mitchel Musso - Raymond Figg
Carter Jenkins - Preston Price
Mark Christopher Lawrence - Calvin's Dad
Judith Moreland - Calvin's Mom

[edit] Trivia

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Tyco is about 168 pounds if he is 24 times over the 7 pound limit for pets at Figg's apartment complex.
Kyle Massey sings the song during the closing credits.
Tyco's real life name is Jed.

[edit] Goofs

When Calvin and Emily are playing Nintendo 64, there is no game in the system, but when they're done, there is.
The "half-pipe" at the dog show was a full pipe.
When Calvin and Figg were interviewing girls, the first one said she was captain of the cheer leading team. But during the basketball game, she is in the stands, and not with the rest of the cheerleaders.
At the beginning of the movie, the box of free puppies in front of the store showed one dog left in the box then a boy took one but there was still a dog left in the box.
When Calvin is shown skateboarding he is of goofy foot stance, but in scenes featuring the skateboard stunt double, the double is of regular board stance.