1hr. 51min. A teenager, Stanley Yelnats (LaBeouf), is sent to camp Green Lake, a Texas detention camp for a crime (stealing a pair of sneakers) he didn't commit. There, he and the other boys are forced by the warden (Weaver), a fiery woman who paints her nails with snake venom, to dig holes as something of a "character building experience." Each day each boy must dig a hole five feet deep and wide, in the long dry rock that was once the bottom of Green Lake.
Release Date: April 18, 2003
MPAA Rating: PG For Violence, Mild Language, and Some Thematic Elements.
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
Shia LaBeouf Sigourney Weaver
Patricia Arquette Rick Fox
Khelo Thomas Tim Blake Nelson
Dule Hill Brenden Jefferson
Bryon Cotton Jake M. Smith
Jon Voight Max Kasch
Miguel Castro Damien Luvara
Henry Winkler Siobhan Fallon
Allison Smith Nathan Davis
Earthe Kitt
Director: Andrew Davis
Producer: Andrew Z. Davis
Lowell D. Blank
Andrew Davis
Cary Granat
Mike Medavoy
Teresa Tucker-Davies
Screenwriter: Brent Hanley
Louis Sachar
Cinematographer: Stephen St. John
Composer: Joel McNeely
Source Writer: Louis Sacher