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Running time: 117 minutes
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Rick Fox, Henry Winkler
Directed by: Andrew Davis
Synopsis
Based on the award-winning book by Louis Sachar, Holes is a funny and poignant coming-of-age adventure.
It tells the story of Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf) - an unusual young hero, dogged by 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.
He and his campmates - Squid, Armpit, ZigZag, Magnet, X-Ray, and Zero - are forced by the menacing warden (Sigourney Weaver) and her right-hand men Mr. Sir (Jon Voight) and Mr. Pendanski (Tim Blake Nelson) 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" 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.
What the critics say
Empire: "Kids’ fare with a brain — a haunting detective story with a warm heart."
BBCi: "Holes has enough wit and wisdom to be an entertaining alternative to the effects-heavy world of Harry Potter's Hogwarts."
Entertainment Weekly: "Honoring the literary ground beneath it, spotted yellow lizards and all, the movie Holes is easy to dig."
New York Times: "One of the few recent movies I have seen that plunged me into that rare, giddy state of pleasurable confusion, of not knowing what would happen next, which I associate with the reading and moviegoing experiences of my own childhood."
