Fresh
Brims with storytelling flourishes and gently deployed life lessons that even accompanying adults may dig.
Ed Park, Village Voice
Holes
Some secrets are too big to keep hidden.
2003 · 1h 57m · PG
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Directed by
Andrew Davis
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Holes
Overview
After being wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley Yelnats is sent away to Camp Green Lake, a boys detention facility where inmates are forced to dig holes all day in the hot desert sun as a form of character building. As he endures the brutal routine, Stanley begins to uncover a hidden truth behind the camp, one that connects to a dangerous secret—and possibly Stanley’s family itself.
Director and cast
- Andrew Davis Director
- Shia LaBeouf as Stanley
- Sigourney Weaver as Warden
- Jon Voight as Mr. Sir
- Patricia Arquette as Kissin' Kate Barlow
- Tim Blake Nelson as Dr. Pendanski
- Dulé Hill as Sam
- Henry Winkler as Stanley's Father
- Nathan Davis as Grandfather
- Rick Fox as Clyde 'Sweetfeet' Livingston
- Scott Plank as Trout Walker
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Rotten
[T]here's too much going on, and none of it is executed well enough to recommend.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Fresh
It's smart, strange, unpredictable, and defies the formulas that typically define this sort of motion picture.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh
A wonderfully dark fairy tale.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
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 movie's basic weakness, is also its fundamental virtue.
Philip Kennicott, Washington Post
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