Director: Andrew Davis
Copyright: 2003
Time: 117 minutes
Cast:Shia LaBeouf (as "Stanley Yelnats IV")
Sigourney Weaver (as "The Warden")
Jon Voight (as "Mr. Sir")
Tim Blake Nelson (as "Dr. Pendanski")
MPAA Rating: PG: Rated PG for violence, mild language and some thematic elements.
Cornfeild Lion's rating:
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Holes is the story of Stanley Yelnats (The Fourth). His family believes that the men have always had a curse on them. Stanley doesn't really believe that, but when he gets sent to a troubled-youth camp (Camp Greenlake, which isn't green and doesn't have a lake...)where he has to dig a 4-foot by 4-foot by 4-foot pit in the desert with very little nourishment, it's kind of good to have something to blame it all on. Stanley hopes he can find a bit of good luck and maybe help his new friend, Zero out, as well as himself...
Holes is a movie based on the award-winning book by Louis Sachar. Many people say that Holes the movie doesn't do the book justice. And they are pretty much right. While the movie is funny and dramatic, the book is more humorous and you can't put it down. Maybe the movie would be a pretty good one all by itself, but in light of such a fantastic book it's just not so great... Anyway, maybe you should read the book first so the movie doesn't ruin it... or maybe you should watch the movie first so the book doesn't ruin the movie... hmm... anyway, READ THE BOOK! Heh heh, ok, I'm done now.

Rated For:
Violence: There's some wrestling when the boys get mad at each other and Mr. Sir's face swells up from poison. And we see some cadavers from Kissin' Kate Barlow.

Sexual and Nudity: Kissin' Kate Barlow kisses people. Yay.

Language: Some mild language...

Offence to Chirstianity: Plenty of "oh my Gods."

Other: None

Cornfeild Lion's Rating: PG

Movie Quotes:

Stanley: "I wonder how she knew all of our names?"
Zig-Zag: "She has these little cameras and microphones all over the place. In the tent, in the wreck room, in the showers."
Stanley: "She doesn't have them in the showers!"
Squid: "Oh don't listen to him. I saw his file. It said he suffers from, um, oh! acute paranoia."
Magnet: "So I guess that means she watches me everyday, huh."
Armpit: "Man, he said cameras and microphones, not microscopes."

Mr. Sir: "I ain't on stupid pills!"

Sam: "I can fix that."

Stanley: "I stole some shoes."
Squid: "From a store or were they on someone's feet?"
Zig-Zag: "No, he forgot to tell us that he killed the guy first, then took the shoes."

Mr. Pendanski: "You are here because of one person only; do you know who that one person is?"
Stanley: "Yeah, my no-good-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather."

Magnet: "I would'a made it outta there if my pocket didn't start barkin'."

The Warden: "I'm surrounded by cow turds!"

Mr. Sir: "Once upon a time there was a magical place where it never rained, the end."