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Adapted by Louis Sacher from his Newbery award-winning book, this is the story of Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf), whose name is the same backwards and forwards, a palindrome. Stanley is wrongfully accused of stealing a very valuable pair of sneakers and sentenced to a juvenile facility in the desert. Each boy there is required to dig a five-foot-deep hole every day. They are told it is to help them develop character, but could it be that the Warden (Sigourney Weaver) is looking for something that just might be buried in the endless stretch of sand that once was Green Lake?

We cannot understand the answer to that question until we learn the stories of Stanley's pig-stealing great-great grandfather, who was cursed by a gypsy, and of the notorious outlaw of the Old West, Kissin' Kate Barlow, who left lipstick kissprints on the faces of the men she killed.

Sigourney Weaver at her best
When I first read the book Holes, in third grade, I was completely blown away. But when I saw the movie, I nearly landed on Mars! It immediately became my new favorite movie, surpassing even Ghostbusters. What really charmed me was the love story between Kissin' Kate Barlow (Patricia Arquette) and the onion picker, Sam (Dule Hill)
This movie tells the story of a young boy, Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf) who is unjustly sent to Camp green Lake, a juvenile detention center where boys are made to dig a five foot hole every day out in the hot sun out on a dried up lake where it hadn't rained for a hundred and ten years, all because of a racism incident between the dead town of Green Lake's schoolteacher Katherine Barlow, the man who wished to marry her, Trout Walker and Sam the onion picker, the Negro man she loved. Stanley must then solve the mystery of why the warden is making the boys dig holes, and what she is trying to find. but what could possibly be buried out on a dried up lake?
There are a lot of twists and connections between Stanley's family, including his 'no-good dirty-rotten pig-steling great-great-grandfather' who is to blame for a curse on the family, and Stanley's great-grandfather who was once robbed in the desert by Kissin' kate BArlow, who became an outlaw after Sam was killed by Trout when he caught him kissing Katherine, Katherine, and Hector Zeroni, a descendent of the woman who put the curse on his family, and the wonderfulyl nasty warden of Camp Green LAke (Sigourney Weaver) who is a descendent of Trout Walker.
If you liked the book, Holes you should definitely see the movie. it is better-by far.

Adults can watch it with their kids and all actually enjoy!
The wildly popular novel for youngsters "Holes" gets turned into a movie that is completely in keeping with the spirit of the book.

The young cast bring to life the beloved characters at Camp Green Lake, where convicted juvenile delinquents are sent to toil in broiling Texas sun. It was great to see X-Ray, Zero, Armpit and of course Caveman brought to life. The adult parts are played by Jon Voight, Sigourney Weaver and Tim Blake Nelson, and they look like they're having a WORLD of fun playing the malicious staff at Camp Green Lake. The story is not insulting to kids, and adults can watch it and be entertained the entire length of the movie. Vignettes back at Caveman's home where Stanley Yelnats the second and third live under the curse incurred from the first Stanley Yelnats, and trips back in time where that first Stanley was cursed by European VooDoo Woman Eartha Kitt as well as the back-story around Kissin' Kate and her treasure all add to the viewing pleasure.

The DVD comes with just the right amount of supplemental features, interviews and commentaries.

Not many "children's movies" are as appropriate for all ages. Highly recommended.