Holes: Book vs. Movie
Andrew Davis’s Holes (2003) adapts Louis Sachar’s 1998 novel, with a screenplay by Sachar. Wrongly convicted Stanley Yelnats is sent to a camp where digging holes conceals a search for something valuable.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Louis Sachar
- Year
- 1998
- Pages
- 288Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 4 hr 37 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Kerry Beyer, see all
Stanley Yelnats blames a family curse when a wrongful conviction sends him to Camp Green Lake, where boys dig daily holes in a dried-up lakebed. The warden insists the labor builds character, but her interest in anything they uncover suggests another purpose. As Stanley befriends a boy called Zero, the camp’s buried history begins to connect with stories that his own family has handed down.
- Director
- Andrew Davis
- Writer
- Louis Sachar
- Year
- 2003
- Runtime
- 1 hr 57 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson
- Genre
- Comedy, comedy drama, Mystery, prison, Western
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Sent to a desert detention camp for a theft he did not commit, Stanley Yelnats joins a crew of boys digging under the supervision of a warden who watches closely for discoveries. He makes a bargain with Zero, trading reading lessons for help with the work. Their friendship grows as the film follows an older story of forbidden love and violence on the land beneath their feet.
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