Holes (2003)

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CinemaSource

Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Rating: PG

Release Date: Apr 18, 2003

Running Time: 111 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson, Shia LaBeouf, Rick Fox, Damien Luvara, Khleo Thomas, Allison Smith, Patricia Arquette, Dulé Hill

director: Andrew Davis

Holes

Stanley Yelnats is an unusual hero with dogged bad luck stemming from an ancient family curse. Perpetually in the wrong place at the wrong time, Stanley is unfairly sentenced to months of detention at Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn't commit. There, he and his campmates--Squid, Armpit, ZigZag, Magnet, X-Ray and Zero--are forced by the menacing warden and her right-hand men Mr. Sir and Mr. Pendanski to dig holes in order to build character. Nobody knows the real reason they're digging all these holes, but Stanley soon begins to question why the warden is so interested in anything "special" about the boys' find. Stanley and his campmates must stick together and keep one step ahead of the warden and her henchmen as they plot a daring escape from the camp to solve the mystery and break the Yelnats family curse.

A teenager is wrongly accused of a crime and sent to a juvenile work camp in the desert where he and his campmates are forced to dig holes ''to build character''--or so they're told.

Story

Based on the award-winning children's novel by Louis Sachar, Holes is essentially the story of young Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf), a goodhearted kid who unfortunately lives in a family where the men are plagued by an ancient curse thanks to the stupidity of Stanley's ''no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing…