Holes

2003
PG
1h 57m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

103K

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Brenden Jefferson, Shia LaBeouf, Miguel Castro, Byron Cotton, Khleo Thomas, and Jake M. Smith in Holes (2003)

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Desert Adventure Satire Teen Adventure Teen Drama Adventure Comedy Drama Family Mystery

A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

103K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,148

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins & 9 nominations total

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Storyline

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Trivia
The onions that Stanley and Zero eat towards the end of the movie are actually apples wrapped in an edible cover.

Goofs
The angles of sunlight throughout the film change from phases of mid-day to afternoon/evening/morning constantly between shots in the "hole field".

Quotes
Zero: I'm not stupid, I know everyone thinks I am, I just don't like answering stupid questions.

Crazy credits
At the very end of the credits, Hector "Zero" Zeroni quotes the curse his great-great-great-grandmother made with her accent and speech patterns. He grins at the camera before it cuts to black. After which, the Walt Disney Pictures logo is shown.

Connections
Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Good Guys Gone Bad in Film (2014)

Soundtracks
Dig It
Written by Mickey Petralia, Michael Fitzpatrick, Doug E. Fresh, Byron Cotton,
Brenden Jefferson, Max Kasch, Shia LaBeouf & Khleo Thomas
Produced by Mickey Petralia
Performed by Byron Cotton, Brenden Jefferson, Max Kasch, Shia LaBeouf & Khleo Thomas
Courtesy of Walt Disney Records

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Featured review

9/10

So much cooler and more interesting than the usual live-action Disney junk.

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.