{"id":1486,"date":"2004-12-22T13:33:13","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T13:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1486.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","slug":"holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/12\/22\/holes\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Holes<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) is the latest in a long line of Yelnatses who suffer from impossibly bad luck as the result of an old gypsy curse.  While walking under a bridge one day, he is hit over the head by a falling pair of sneakers.  After taking them home, he is arrested and wrongly convicted for stealing them from a charity auction.  The judge sends him to Camp Green Lake, an institution for young offenders to &#8220;build character.&#8221;  Green Lake turns out to be a bizarre forced labour camp, run by the cranky Mr Sir (Jon Voight) and a mysterious warden, where the kids are sent out into the desert to dig holes every day.<\/p>\n<p>In parallel with Stanley&#8217;s story, another tale is being told:  that of Kissin&#8217; Kate Barlow (Patricia Arquette), a school teacher turned bandit from Green Lake as it was a hundred years ago.  Hers is a tragic love story, and it gradually emerges that her history is wholly entwined with that of the Camp, and Stanley&#8217;s own family curse.<\/p>\n<p>Right from the opening scenes, it&#8217;s clear that <i>Holes<\/i> is much more than simple kids&#8217; film.  The initial flashbacks are just a taste of the multi-layered story that is to follow, and when all the threads are tied together at the end, the only word that fits is &#8220;magical&#8221;.  For an extraordinary modern fairytale, and a beautiful example of cinematic storytelling, look no further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) is the latest in a long line of Yelnatses who suffer from impossibly bad luck as the result of an old gypsy curse. While walking under a bridge one day, he is hit over the head by a falling pair of sneakers. After taking them home, he is arrested and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_45_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}