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Overview

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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Louis Sachar (novel)
Louis Sachar (screenplay)
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Release Date:
18 April 2003 (USA) more
Tagline:
The book is now the movie. more
Plot:
A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 9 nominations more
User Comments:
So much cooler and more interesting than the usual live-action Disney junk. more (267 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Sigourney Weaver ... Warden Walker

Jon Voight ... Marion Sevillo / 'Mr. Sir'

Tim Blake Nelson ... Dr. Pendanski

Shia LaBeouf ... Stanley Yelnats IV / 'Caveman'
Khleo Thomas ... Hector Zeroni / 'Zero'
Jake M. Smith ... Alan / 'Squid'
Byron Cotton ... Theodore / 'Armpit'
Brenden Jefferson ... Rex / 'X-Ray'
Miguel Castro ... José / 'Magnet'
Max Kasch ... Ricky / 'Zigzag'
Noah Poletiek ... Brian / 'Twitch'
Zane Holtz ... Lewis / 'Barfbag'
Steven Kozlowski ... Lump (as Steve Kozlowski)

Ski Carr ... Guard

Roma Maffia ... Atty. Carla Morengo
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG for violence, mild language and some thematic elements.
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117 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Nine "Bearded Dragon" lizards were on call for the parts of the lizards in the film. A non-toxic children's finger paint was used on the lizards to make them appear bright in color. Computers helped create some of the lizard action and production created fake life-like lizards for some of the other scenes. more
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Continuity: Flipped shot: After Kate tries to get help from the sheriff and he tries to kiss her, she runs out into the town. The sign of the store that she runs past ("Guns & Powders") is printed backwards. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
[Barfbag walks towards a rattlesnake]
X-Ray: Hey, Barfbag. What are you doing?
[Barfbag takes his shoe and sock off and steps on the snake, which bites him]
Barfbag: [yells] Aaaaaah!
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I Will Survive more

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Was God's Thumb the mountain in Latvia or Texas? Or were there two God's Thumb mountains?
Why do the boys at Camp Greenlake have to dig holes all day?
Is "Holes" based on a novel?
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45 out of 47 people found the following comment useful.
So much cooler and more interesting than the usual live-action Disney junk., 27 April 2005
9/10
Author: Judith Fessbeggler from United States

HOLES is not your average Disney stuff- it's very, very fun, even for adults who usually cringe at the cutesy, focus-group designed "family entertainment" that Uncle Walt's studio passes off as live-action. Perhaps the secret of this film's success is in its faithfulness to the original book, which is a little bit darker than your average kid stuff. The action begins when Stanley Yelnats is sent to a boys' prison camp, where all the inmates are forced to dig holes under the desert sun as a form of rehibilitation. But as the story progresses, Stanley's tale becomes interwoven with that of a legendary treasure, and this adventure becomes ten times more fun than any Disney movie about an all-boy prison camp has any right to be. Jon Voight is especially nasty and colorful, and Sigourney Weaver is beautiful, as always.

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