Holes

Holes is a 2003 American film directed by Andrew Davis. The film was released on April 18, 2003.
== Plot ==
In Green Lake, Texas, the Yelnats family has been cursed to be unlucky, which they blame on their ancestor Elya's failure to keep a promise to fortune teller Madame Zeroni over a century earlier in Latvia. One day, Stanley Yelnats IV is wrongfully convicted of stealing a pair of sneakers donated to charity by baseball player Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston, and is sentenced to 18 months at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, in lieu of jail time.
The camp is in a dried lake bed where rain never falls and venomous yellow-spotted lizards proliferate. Stanley meets warden Louise Walker; her assistant, Mr. Sir; and camp counsellor Dr. Pendanski. Prisoners, known by their nicknames, including Zero, Zig-Zag, Armpit, Squid, X-Ray, and Magnet, dig holes in the desert daily; they may earn a day off if they find anything interesting inside the holes. After Stanley finds a golden lipstick tube initialled K.B. and a fossil, he is accepted into the group and given the nickname Caveman. When Magnet steals Mr. Sir's bag of sunflower seeds, Stanley takes responsibility and is taken to Walker's cabin. Inside, Stanley discovers old wanted posters and newspapers and realises "KB" stands for Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow, an outlaw his great-grandfather encountered. Walker assaults Mr. Sir for his irrelevant report and allows Stanley to return to work.
Camp Green Lake's history is revealed in a series of flashbacks as a flourishing lakeside community in the 19th century. Kate romantically bonds with Sam, an African-American onion merchant who helps repair her schoolhouse. When the wealthy Charles "Trout" Walker discovers the two kissing, he spreads the word out of jealousy, and the town's citizens burn down the schoolhouse and murder Sam. In retaliation, Kate becomes an outlaw hunting down Walker's men, earning her nickname by kissing the men she murders. As her legend is established, Green Lake goes into decline due to the lake's sudden evaporation. One of Kate's victims is Elya's son Stanley Yelnats Sr., who is robbed of his chest of gold and left to fend for himself in the desert. Years later, Kate has a final confrontation with the now-destitute Walkers; before allowing herself to be lethally bitten by a lizard, she boasts neither Walker nor his descendants will find her buried fortune.
In the present, Pendanski mocks Zero, whose real name is Hector Zeroni, but the latter strikes Pendanski with a shovel and flees. After some deliberation, Stanley searches for Hector. The two have difficulty surviving in the desert without water. Eventually, Stanley carries the ailing Hector up the mountain, where they find a field of wild onions and a source of water, helping them regain strength; at the same time, Stanley unknowingly fulfils his ancestor's promise to the fortune teller and breaks the curse. While camping on the mountain, Hector tells Stanley he stole Livingston's sneakers and threw them over the bridge to evade the police, only for them to inadvertently hit Stanley's head.
Returning to the camp, Stanley and Hector investigate the hole where Stanley found the lipstick and discover a chest before they are discovered by Walker, Mr. Sir, and Pendanski. They soon realise Walker, who is Trout's granddaughter, has been using the inmates to search for Barlow's treasure. The adults are unable to steal the chest from the boys, as the hole has swarmed with lizards, which do not bite Stanley and Hector due to the onions they ate earlier. The adults, puzzled, wait for the lizards to kill the boys. The next morning, the attorney general and Stanley's lawyer arrive, accompanied by a Texas Ranger; the chest Stanley found is discovered to have belonged to his namesake great-grandfather. Walker, Mr. Sir, who is in truth a paroled criminal named Marion Sevillo, and Pendanski, who is impersonating a doctor, are arrested. Stanley and Zero are released, and it rains in Green Lake for the first time in over a century.
The Yelnats family obtains the chest, which contains jewels, deeds, and promissory notes. They share this with Hector, who uses it to hire private investigators to find his missing mother, and both families live a life of financial ease as neighbours.
== Cast and Characters ==
* Sigourney Weaver as Louise Walker/The Warden
* Jon Voight as Marion Sevillo/Mr. Sir
* Tim Blake Nelson as Dr. Pendanski
* Shia LaBeouf as Stanley "Caveman" Yelnats IV
* Khloe Thomas as Hector "Zero" Zeroni
* Jake M. Smith as Squid
* Byron Cotton as Armpit
* Brenden Jefferson as X-Ray
* Miguel Castro as Magnet
* Max Kasch as Zig-Zag
* Noah Poletiek as Twitch
* Zane Holtz as Barf Bag
* Steve Koslowski as Lump
* Roma Maffia as Attorney Carla Morengo
* Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Tiffany Yelnats
* Henry Winkler as Stanley Yelnats III
* Nathan Davis as Stanley Yelnats Jr.
* Shelley Malil as The Yelnats' Landlord
* Rick Fox as Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston
* Nicole Pulliam as Mrs. Sweet Feet
* Eartha Kitt as Madame Zeroni
* Damien Luvara as Elya Yelnats
* Sanya Mateyas as Myra Menke
* Ravil Isyanov as Morris Menke
* Ken Davitian as Igor Barkov
* Patricia Arquette as Kissin' Kate Barlow
* Scott Plank as Trout Walker
* Dulé Hill as Sam
* Allan Kolman as Stanley Yelnats Sr.
* Louis Sachar as Mr. Collingwood
* Michael Cavanaugh as Judge Austin Gorg
Category:Films
Category:Live-action Films
Category:2003 Films
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