Holes - Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Shia LaBeouf, Andrew Davis
Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
Some secrets are too big to keep hidden.
Holes 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. There, he and his campmates - Squid (Jacob Merten Smith), Armpit (Byron Cotton), ZigZag (Max Kasch), Magnet (Miguel Castro), X-Ray (Brenden Jefferson) and Zero (Khleo Thomas) - 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.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film children adventure curse detention digging
Persons of interest
- Sigourney Weaver .... The Warden
- Jon Voight .... Mr Sir
- Patricia Arquette .... Kissin' Kate Barlow
- Shia LaBeouf .... Stanley Yelnats/Caveman
- Tim Blake Nelson .... Pendanski
- Khleo Thomas .... Zero
- Jacob Merten Smith .... Squid
- Byron Cotton .... Armpit
- Brenden Jefferson .... X-Ray
- Miguel Castro .... Magnet
- Siobhan Fallon .... Stanley's mother
- Max Kasch .... Zig-Zag
- Henry Winkler .... Father
- Nathan Davis .... Grandfather
- Scott Plank .... Trout
- Dulé Hill .... Sam
- Damien Luvara .... Elya
- Louis Sachar .... Author
- Louis Sachar .... Screenwriter
- Andrew Davis .... Director
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Intelligence analyst
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Theatrical report
Standard teen adventure in which kids are hard-done-by and adults are stupid. Fun for the pubescent family.
Media intelligence (DVD)
- Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound
- Languages: English, French, Spanish
- Picture: Widescreen (1.85:1)
- Special features:
- Commentaries
- Deleted scenes
- Featurettes:
- Digging the first hole
- Gag reel
- The boys of D-tent
- Music video: Dig it by D-Tent Boys
- Subtitles: Danish, English, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Norwegian, Spanish
Security censorship classification
PG (Medium level violence, adult themes)
Surveillance time
118 minutes (1:58 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 30 October 2003
DVD retail: 18 August 2004
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