Claim: Shia LaBeouf was in an American film.
Evidence: He made his film debut in Holes -LRB- 2003 -RRB- , based on the novel of the same name by Louis Sachar.
Holes is a 2003 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 eponymous novel by Louis Sachar -LRB- who also wrote the screenplay -RRB-.