''Red Riding Hood'' is a 2006 American

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starring Morgan Thompson as "Red",

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as "the Hunter", and

Joey Fatone Joseph Anthony Fatone Jr. (born January 28, 1977) is an American singer, dancer, actor, and television host. He is best known as a member of the boy band NSYNC, in which he sang baritone. The band has sold over 70 million records, becoming one ...

as "the Wolf". It notably marked the film acting debut of

Ben Platt Benjamin Schiff Platt (born September 24, 1993) is an American actor and singer. The son of film and theater producer Marc Platt (producer), Marc Platt and philanthropist Julie Platt, he began his acting career in musical theater as a child and ...

before his career breakthrough in ''

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'' six years later.

Plot

Claire, a typical teenaged girl obsessed with

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s who is planning to sneak out and meet up with her friends is treated to the story of

Little Red Riding Hood "Little Red Riding Hood" () is a fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European Fable, folk tales. It was later retold in the 19th-century by the Broth ...

by her babysitting

grandmother Grandparents, individually known as grandmother and grandfather, or Grandma and Grandpa, are the parents of a person's father or mother – paternal or maternal. Every sexually reproducing living organism who is not a genetic chimera has a maxi ...

. She and her brother Matt repeatedly offer suggestions on how to spice up the story. Red lives with her family in a

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by the

ocean The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of Earth. The ocean is conventionally divided into large bodies of water, which are also referred to as ''oceans'' (the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Indian, Southern Ocean ...

. One day, Red is set to travel through the woods to her grandmother's house built on an oceanside

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to bring her

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for her

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. Her mother warns her against using the woods as a shorter route due to the danger of a

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therein but Red is disbelieving and uses the woods anyway. The

spots Red immediately and begins

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her. When she is

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by the three Ashleys (modeled after the

Three Billy Goats Gruff "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" () is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their '' Norske Folkeeventyr'', first published between 1841 and 1844. It has an Aarne-Thompson type of 122E. The first versi ...

), the wolf arrives soon after and gobbles them up, discovering Red's

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in the process. When the wolf (disguised as a man) finally closes in on Red, he is caught in a trap from which he is released by his gullible prey. Before he can devour her, however, he is scared away by the arrival of a

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on a

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(with a

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). Hunter warns Red against traveling the woods as the creature she had released was a

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, further explaining that he had eaten his parents. Again, she is disbelieving and does what she wants. Finding herself stranded in the woods, Red calls her brother for help and prays to make it out of the woods safely. Her brother arrives but his help is inadequate and he finds himself stranded with her. The two manage to make it to their grandmother's house, but she has already been eaten and replaced by the wolf. Before he can eat Red, he is distracted by her brother and a chase ensues that nearly ends in Rusty being eaten. Hunter arrives to help but the wolf nearly eats Rusty anyway before Red tosses a silver bullet into his mouth which he swallows. Light begins to pour out from cracks in his body and he explodes, releasing all of the people he had swallowed whole since becoming a werewolf. Amid the happy reunions, the wolf (unharmed) finds the

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who had

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d him (and was subsequently the first to be eaten) and convinces her to remove the curse. Grandmother's story now ended, she offers to tell the children a

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and Claire is convinced to stay in rather than sneak out. Claire, Grandma, and Matt order

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which is delivered by a pizza delivery boy who resembles the Hunter from the story.

Cast

* Morgan Thompson as

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/ Claire * Sam Stone as Rusty / Matt *

Lainie Kazan Lainie Kazan (born Lainie Levine; May 15, 1940) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for ''St. Elsewhere'' and the 1993 Tony Award for Best Featured Actr ...

as Grandma *

Debi Mazar Debi Mazar Corcos (; born August 13, 1964) is an American actress and television personality. She began her career with supporting roles in '' Goodfellas'' (1990), '' Little Man Tate'' (1991), '' Singles'' (1992), and '' Batman Forever'' (1995), ...

as Red's Mother *

Daniel Roebuck Daniel James Roebuck (born March 4, 1963) is an American actor and writer. In film, he is known for his roles as Deputy Marshal Robert Biggs in ''The Fugitive'' (1993) and its spin-off ''U.S. Marshals'' (1998), as well as Mr. Banks in '' Agent ...

as Red's Father *

as Jack WereWolf * Ashley Rose Orr as Ashley Alvares-Mitchell (Ashley #1) *

Andrea Bowen Andrea Bowen (born March 4, 1990) is an American actress. She began her career appearing on Broadway musicals such as ''Les Misérables'' and ''The Sound of Music''. In 2004, she began playing the role of Julie Mayer on the ABC comedy-drama se ...

as Ashley Crane (Ashley #2) * Callie Waterman as Ashley DeWitt (Ashley #3) *

as Hunter / Pizza Delivery Boy *

Cassandra Peterson Cassandra Gay Peterson (born September 17, 1951) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of the horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Peterson gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV in her stage pers ...

as Hunter's Mother * David Kaufman as Hunter's Father * Suzanne Kent as The Gypsy Fortune Teller *

Sung Hi Lee Sung-Hi Lee () is a South Korean model and actress based in North America. She has been featured in ''Playboy'' magazine as well as in many other magazines and some commercial advertising. Early life and education Born in Gija-chon, Eunpyeong ...

as The TV Reporter *

as The Boy Scout *

John Paragon John Dixon Paragon (December 9, 1954 – April 3, 2021) was an American actor, writer and director. He was best known for his work on the television series '' Pee-wee's Playhouse'', where he portrayed Jambi the Genie and voiced Pterri the Ptero ...

as The Fisherman *

Donzaleigh Abernathy Donzaleigh Abernathy (born August 5, 1957) is an American actress, author and civil rights activist. Early life Abernathy’s mother was pregnant with her when her parents’ home was bombed in the pre-dawn hours of January 10, 1957 after the ...

as The Newscaster

References

External links

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Cast

See also

References

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