Taglines: Some secrets are too big to keep hidden.
“But if you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.” Those were the exact words spoken to young Elya Yelnats the day he forgot to repay Madame Zeroni. From then on his family was cursed with bad luck. One hundred years later Stanley Yelnats IV is accused of stealing a pair of cleats from a major league baseball player and sent to Camp Green Lake (a dry lake bed in the middle of the desert).
It never rains at Camp Green Lake, it hasn’t for one hundred years. The secretive and mysterious Warden has each inmate spend every day digging one hole to “build character.” But when an artifact from the famous “Kissin’ Kate” Barlow is found in a hole, the Warden forces the boys to work double time leading Stanley to deduce they’re digging because the Warden is looking for something. But what? And how is the mystery of Camp Green Lake connected to Stanley’s family curse?
Holes is an American adventure comedy-drama film directed by Andrew Davis, produced by Lowell D. Blank, Mike Medavoy and Teresa Tucker-Davies with music by Joel McNeely and based on the 1998 novel of the same title by Louis Sachar (who also wrote the screenplay), with Shia LaBeouf as the lead role of Stanley Yelnats IV and also starring Khleo Thomas, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson, Eartha Kitt, Patricia Arquette, Dulé Hill, Rick Fox, and Henry Winkler. The film was co-produced by Walden Media and Walt Disney Pictures and distributed in many markets by Disney’s distribution company Buena Vista. Holes was Scott Plank’s final film. He died on October 24, 2002.
The film’s music which included the Grammy winning single “Just Like You” by Keb Mo’, and “Dig It” by The D Tent Boys (the actors portraying the D Tent group inmates), which had a music video which played regularly on Disney Channel. The soundtrack also included contributions by Eels, Devin Thompson, Dr. John, Eagle Eye Cherry, Fiction Plane, Little Axe, Moby, North Mississippi Allstars, Pepe Deluxé, Shaggy, Stephanie Bentley, and Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps. The score was written by Joel McNeely.
Directed by: Andrew Davis
Starring: Shia La Beouf, Sigourney Weaver, Patricia Arquette, Rick Fox, Dule Hill, Damien Luvara, Tim Blake Nelson
Screenplay by: Louis Sachar
Production Design by: Maher Ahmad
Cinematography by: Stephen St. John
Costume Design by: Aggie Rodgers
Art Direction by: Andrew Max Cahn
Set Decoration by: Gene Serdena
Music by: Joel McNeely
MPAA Rating: PG for violence, mild language and some thematic elements.
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Release Date: April 16, 2003
