“Holes” Movie Review

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Seth Burbank, Staff Writer

Have you ever imagined yourself going to a camp in the desert with criminals and digging holes every day? An amazing movie about a bunch of criminals that aren’t in jail cells is the movie “Holes.”

“Holes,” released in 2003, is about Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBouf) who is sent to Camp Green Lake after he’s accused of stealing a famous baseball player’s shoes from a homeless shelter in town. While

the best-selling novel by Louis Sachar. This movie is a well-told story with flashbacks that show the mysterious history behind the camp. This history includes when Stanley’s great grandfather is robbed by a notorious female outaw and the real reason for why the juvenile delinquents at Camp Green Lake are digging holes for Mr. Sir (Jon Voight), Dr. Pendanski (Tim Blake Nelson) and The Warden (Sigourney Weaver) each and every day.