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Release Date: 23 September, 2003 Retail Price: $19.99 OUR Price: $15.99 You SAVE: $4.00! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
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A very pleasant surprise.
Holes (Andrew Davis, 2003)
Davis, normally a director of such vague action fare as The Fugitive and Collateral Damage, here turns in a surprisingly good coming-of-age tale. The story centers around Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf, longtime star of Even Stevens), a kid who's always in the wrong place at the wrong time thanks, he thinks, to a family curse. Wrongly convicted of stealing a baseball star's shoes that had been donated to charity, Yelnats is sent to a work camp instead of jail. Cue "large numbers of boys coming of age at the same time" music here. What the boys do at the work camp is quite simple: they dig holes. Their taskmaster is the incongruously named Mr. Sir (Jon Voight, looking younger than he has in a decade), who is constantly at odds with the camp's counselor, Dr. Pendraski (Tim Blake Nelson in his best role since O Brother, Where Art Thou?). They all answer to the mysterious warden (Sigourney Weaver), who takes quite an interest in those holes-- or what's found in them. Paralleling Stanley's plot are two other tales, the story of how the curse was laid on the family by Madame Zeroni (Eartha Kitt), and the tale of Kissin' Kate Barlow (Patricia Arquette), the first person to actually visit the curse on the Yelnats family, by relieving Stanley I of his fortune not long after he came to America.
Louis Sachar, adapting his own novel, has created a fine cast of characters who actually have depth to them, and put them into (relatively, anyway) believable situations, allowing us to care about their various fates. His bad guys are mostly sympathetic, his good guys not without their flaws, and everyone acts pretty much in character. Though there was one glaring failing of the script: if I were a teenaged boy, and I were at a prison camp where the warden looked like Sigourney Weaver, I wouldn't have ignored that fact in the way these kids do.
Who knew Andrew Davis had it in him? Not me. Holes is an exceptional picture, and not at all just a kids' movie. Worth your time. *** ½
Digging up holes
This story takes place in a very large country in Texas. This American white boy came to Camp Green Lake to dig holes for Ms Warden she wanted something of hers but its Stanly`s old boxes.
This book is mostly about a teenage boy named Stanly Yonson and an other boy named Hector. Hector stole a pare of shoes who'll Hector through them Stanly found a pare of shoes on the ground.Both of the boys got in trouble for steeling a pare of shoes. Zeor went to Camp Green Lake, and Cavemane went to Camp Green Lake.Zeroand Caveman Caveman help Zero how to write, and read Zero spelled his name with his name at the top of the paper that Stanly rote. Caveman helped Zero say his alphabets but he did not now his a,b,c,ds.
In my opinion This is amagnefecent book . I laughed a little bit,It said, a little woman oh had lived in a shoe with 12 little children in one small shoe, I would because it's entering.
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