Page to Screen: Holes

Last week, I reviewed the book Holes by Louis Sachar. Today, I’m going to review the 2003 movie adaptation of the book, also called Holes.

The movie Holes, follows the book very closely. There are a couple of characters in the flashbacks to the 1800s who die in the book. In the movie, the characters still die, but the action is filmed in such a way that it is not too intense or violent for young viewers. I appreciated this since my six year old, West, is really sensitive to intense action in movies.

The casting for this film was excellent. Who else could play the bad-ass female camp warden better than Sigourney Weaver? Shia LaBeof plays Stanley – he looks like a baby! I didn’t realize that he had done much acting before the Transformers movies. He is great in this movie (way better than in Transformers, in my opinion. That is no doubt partly a function of scripting. It’s hard to act well if the dialogue is crap. Anyway….)

Other actors you may recognize that are in this movie include Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Henry Winkler, and Dulé Hill. This was a really fun movie and very faithful to the book. If you loved the book, you’ll love the movie too.

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