Holes
Summary
Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unea... Full description
Summary: |
Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unearth the mystery of what's really going on in the desert. |
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Item Description: |
Based on the novel by Louis Sachar. Special features: gag reel; deleted scenes; cast commentary with Shia LaBeouf, Khleo Thomas, Jake M. Smith, Max Kasch; "Dig it" music video performed by the cast; "The making of 'Holes'" featurette; filmmaker's commentary with director Andrew Davis and author/screenwriter Louis Sachar. |
Physical Description: |
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
Format: |
DVD, Region 1 encoding, Dolby digital, DTS, Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound. |
Audience: |
MPAA rating: PG; for violence, mild language and some thematic elements. |
Production Credits: |
Director of photography, Stephen St. John ; editors, Tom Nordberg, Jeffrey Wolf ; music, Joel McNeely ; costume designer, Aggie Guerard Rodgers ; production designer, Maher Ahmad. |
ISBN: |
0788848003 |
Author Notes: |
She was born with the name Susan Alexandra Weaver in New York City, but she began using the name "Sigourney Weaver" in 1963, at age fourteen, because of a minor character (Sigourney Howard) in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. She graduated from Stanford University in 1972 with a BA in English. She also earned an MFA in 1974 from Yale School of Drama. She is fluent in French and in German. She also starred in two films in 1988, receiving Academy Award nominations for her roles as Katherine Parker in Working Girl and as naturalist Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist. She lost out to Geena Davis and Jodie Foster respectively, although she received Golden Globes for both roles. She has been married to filmmaker Jim Simpson since October 1, 1984. They have one daughter Charlotte Simpson, who was born April 13, 1990. (Bowker Author Biography) |