Holes

Rating: 10
Genre: Adventure / Family

This movie came very close to making my all-time top 5 list. Shia LeBeouf plays Stanley Yelnats (the 4th) AKA Caveman in this masterfully done tale of teenage delinquents.

Wrongfully accused and sent to a work camp for boys, Stanley befriends Hector Zeroni (Zero), a homeless boy from the same neighborhood he came from. The boys at Camp Green Lake are forced to dig holes all day for the camp warden, who's secretly looking for the treasure of stage-coach robber Kissin' Kate Barlow. The plot follows a duel path of Stanley's experience and the experience of Kissin' Kate Barlow (and her chance meeting with Stanley's great-great-great grandfather).

The story keeps you guessing and has some hilarious lines and the suspense of deadly poisonous spotted lizards to keep you on edge. It, like Shawshank Redemption, is a story of the redemption of someone wrongly accused. Plus, the part of Stanley's dad is played by Henry Winkler - AAAAYY!!! - so of course it's a great movie!! It also has Jon Voigt, Sigourney Weaver, Tim Blake Nelson, Eartha Kitt, Patrica Arquette, and Siobhan Fallon Hogan. Great casting job!!!

Here are some great quotes from the movie:

"I ain't on stupid pills!"
"Yeah, my no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather, that's who it is."
"I can fix that."
"It smells like puke from a mule been 'ruminating on asparagus for two weeks."
"Everyone in my family names their son Stanley, 'cause it's Yelnats backwards. It's this little... tradition."
"You take a bad boy, make him dig holes all day in the hot sun, it turns him into a good boy. That's our philosophy here at camp green lake."