I like the movie Holes.
Based on the book of the same name. This is a Disney Movie. It is fun. The
premise is that Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf) is sent to a youth
correctional Camp Lake Greenlake, a camp without a lake nor much
greenery. It is in remote Texas. What this camp does have is daily
chore of digging a hole five feet cubed, the length of a shovel wide
both ways and that deep. Not a lot of water, but plenty of dust.
However this area was not always so dry. But is hasn't rained since the
murder of Sam the onion man (Dule Hill) because as a black man he had
befriended a white woman, Kissin' Kate Barlow (Patricia Arquette).
Kissin' Kate as a result went from school teacher to bandit, leaving a
wake of murder and theft. One theft was that of Stanley Yelnats I.
Otherwise the family may have been living in luxury. As it is they
struggle as Stanley's father (Henry Winkler) tries to invent a substance
to counteract foot odor.
When arriving at camp, Stanley realizes this is no fun camp. He meets
Mr. Sir (Jon Voight) the camp director and Dr. Pendanski (Tim Blake
Nelson). At camp Stanley IV befriends Zero (Khleo Thomas). Zero is a
cast off of society who has been separated from his mother. They
realize, after Stanley finds an old lipstick tube with the initials KKB,
that the warden (Sijourney Weaver) is looking for Kissin' Kate's
treasure. Zero and Stanley run away from camp, into an uninviting
desert environment with rattle snakes, scorpions and poison spotted
lizards and no water. This is the same area where Stanley I was
stranded after being robbed. He saved himself by going to the thumb of
God. Stanley and Zero do the same. They see a rock in the distance
that looks like a thumb. There they find a small oasis with onions,
Sam's onions. As they rest, they realize they know where the treasure
is.
This movie shows the importance of family, through the generations.
Turns out Zero and Stanley are also connected through the generations. I
like movies about family, because families are important.
