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About this movie

Genres:
Family, Action & Adventure
Language:
English
Running time:
1:57:22
Partner rating:
PG
Released:

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Sigourney Weaver The Warden
  2. Jon Voight Mr. Sir
  3. Patricia Arquette Kissin' Kate Barlow
  4. Tim Blake Nelson Dr. Pendanski
  5. Shia LaBeouf Stanley Yelnats
  6. Dulé Hill Sam
  7. Henry Winkler Stanley's Father
  8. Nate Davis Stanley's Grandfather
  9. Rick Fox Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston
  10. Scott Plank Trout Walker

Directors

  1. Andrew Davis

Producers

  1. Mike Medavoy
  2. Andrew Davis
  3. Teresa Tucker-Davies
  4. Lowell Blank
  5. Lowell D. Blank

Writers

  1. Louis Sachar

Holes

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Trailer for Holes

A boy being punished for a crime he didn't commit learns there's more going on at a juvenile correctional facility than meets the eye in this comedy drama. Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) is a teenager who has been told all his life that the men in the Yelnats family are cursed, thanks to a false promise his great, great grandfather made to a fortune teller. Given his frequent bad luck, and that which follows his father (Henry Winkler), Stan... A boy being punished for a crime he didn't commit learns there's more going on at a juvenile correctional facility than meets the eye in this comedy drama. Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) is a teenager who has been told all his life that the men in the Yelnats family are cursed, thanks to a false promise his great, great grandfather made to a fortune teller. Given his frequent bad luck, and that which follows his father (Henry Winkler), Stanley has no trouble believing this. Stanley's bad luck hits a new low when a pair of sneakers literally falls out of the sky on him -- and turn out to be stolen. A judge sentences Stanley to a stay at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile correctional facility stuck in the middle of the desert, where he finds himself sharing a tent with a gang of misfits, including ringleader X-Ray (Brenden Jefferson), pushy Squid (Jake M. Smith), small but wiry Zero (Khleo Thomas), tough and stinky Armpit (Byron Cotton), paranoid ZigZag (Max Kasch), and thief-in-training Magnet (Miguel Castro). The Warden of Camp Green Lake (Sigourney Weaver) has her own ideas about rehabilitation, which consist of having the boys spend their days digging holes five feet deep under the desert sun. While well-mannered counselor Pendanski (Tim Blake Nelson) tries to help the boys however he can, Mr. Sir (Jon Voight), The Warden's right hand man, is a heartless creep who enjoys making Stanley and his friends suffer. Before long, Stanley wonders if there's a good reason why the Warden seems so curious about what (if anything) the boys find during their digging, and in time he suspects there's something they haven't been told which might be connected to the Yelnats family curse. Holes was based on the award-winning book for young people by Louis Sachar, who also wrote the film's screenplay.

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Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'fresh' by Rotten Tomatoes

77%Tomatometer score: 77% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Positive review
    Ed Park, Village Voice Brims with storytelling flourishes and gently deployed life lessons that even accompanying adults may dig. – Full review External link
  2. Negative review
    Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper [T]here's too much going on, and none of it is executed well enough to recommend. – Full review External link
  3. Positive review
    James Berardinelli, ReelViews It's smart, strange, unpredictable, and defies the formulas that typically define this sort of motion picture. – Full review External link
  4. Positive review
    Desson Thomson, Washington Post A wonderfully dark fairy tale.
  5. Positive review
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post One can't help but feel thankful that the movie doesn't always go the expected route, that the characters have a little more depth to them than average, and that the complexity, which is the...
  6. Positive review
    Susan Walker, Toronto Star Crazy as it is, Holes could be the Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory of 2003. – Full review External link

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