Pet Project

Justin Peters is a 24 year-old technological engineer at Technovation, a state-of-the-art High-Tech Engineering firm. This summer he is housesitting for his boss, Mr. Alexander. It gives Justin the opportunity to test a revolutionary project, the Genie Nanobot Smart Home System, at the Alexander home. To get in good with the boss's beautiful 22-year-old daughter, Megan, he also agrees to take care of a rescue dog she saved and her two cats. The pets quickly prove to be too much for Justin to handle while also trying to work on the project, so he reluctantly enlists help from his 17-year-old sister, Abby. A virus in the Genie Nanobot program on Justin’s tablet digitizes Abby and then turns Abby into a genie. Justin jokingly commands her to "make these pets stop acting like wild animals". She surprisingly changes Duke, the dog, and Bonnie and Clyde, the cats, into humans. The virus melts the tablet into a useless glob. As a result, Abby does not have the power to change them back. Justin is now tasked with somehow turning Abby back to a genie so she can turn the pets back into animals and trying to figure out how to get his nanobot program to work. After a few days of boredom, the new humans decide to go for a car ride while Justin is out. Since none of them can drive, they wreck Megan’s car. Duke, Bonnie and Clyde decide to help pay for the damages they caused by having a yard sale. At the sale, Duke sees Daisy, the woman who ran a shelter in which Duke once lived. They begin a conversation which leads into a friendship and eventually more. She is a pet psychic and knows there is something different about Duke. As they spend more time together Duke tells her the truth which she readily believes. Duke is now convinced that once he is changed back, he will go live with Daisy. None of Justin's attempts to fix his project work, so he asks a co-worker, Ethan, for help. This means letting him in on everything. Ethan, while not really believing the story, tells Justin that a co-worker, Derek, and an unknown accomplice are under suspicion for selling Technovation secrets to competitors. Ethan has heard that to throw the investigation off track, Derek is implicating Justin. He would not be surprised if Derek was responsible for the virus. Ethan receives a call on his cell phone and goes outside to talk. Once he is outside it is revealed that he is talking to one of Technovations competitors. Ethan is the one selling secrets and even sabotaged Justin's project. The neighbor’s dog overhears the whole conversation and relays the information to Duke, who still understands dog talk. Duke can't tell Justin while Ethan is around, so he tells Abby, Bonnie and Clyde, before going off to be with Daisy. Abby comes up with a plan and asks for her phone. Derek shows up, claiming someone is framing Justin and him. Feeling invincible, Ethan admits that he is the one selling company secrets and framing Justin and Derek, and they are helpless to stop him. He created offshore accounts in their names each worth several hundred thousand dollars. He also set up emails and a clear paper trail leading right back to them. Bonnie and Clyde run into the room to tell Justin about Ethan. And Ethan laughs them off. Then Justin gets a message on his phone from Abby, to let her out. He taps the genie icon and Abby flows out. Since she has been digitized, she traveled through the internet and Ethan's home computer. She rewrote some e-mails, and before erasing Justin's and Derek's offshore accounts, she opened an offshore account for Ethan and transferred the money there. She also wrote an admission of guilt on Ethan's behalf and contacted Technovations and the authorities. They hear sirens in the distance as Ethan runs out the door. Duke returns and empties the contents of a large paper bag he was carrying. He dumps nearly $15,000 on the table. More than enough to cover the damages to the Alexander’s house. When asked where the money came from, he tells them that Daisy and he visited the dog races that evening. It turns out that some of the dogs running that evening, owed Duke “a few favors”. He also shows matching bracelets that he and Daisy are wearing and thinks could be magical. Then Justin receives a text from Mr. Alexander stating, “that because of all that has happened”, they will be returning the next day. Abby once again saves the day, when she tells Justin that she retrieved not only the working nanobot program, but the virus that turned her into a genie. The next morning when Daisy stops by, Duke expects her to take him as her pet when he changes back. A tearful Daisy tells Duke that she lives in a homeless shelter and doesn’t have enough money to take care of herself. She thought that Duke could remain human. Justin explains that Duke must return to canine form. As Abby changes the pets back, Daisy grabs the bracelet on her wrist and the one on Duke's. She cries that she has no one, and no reason to live without Duke and wants to be with him no matter what. The bracelets glow and as the pets turn back into animals, Daisy turns into a dog. When Megan returns, she find a new dog, but since she was planning on keeping Duke, she will keep Daisy, because they look so happy together.