This is an exellent movie that has great messages about friendships, poverty, responsibility, and great lessons on adult/child comunication issues. Unfortunatly it does deal with issues such as suicide, racism, shooting, language, and children being treated like garbage. This is really a movie that you need to know your kid. Some 8 year olds might be able to deal with the content in the movie others wont.
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Common Sense says
Great movie respects its audience's intelligence.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 10 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
About Holes
Parents need to know that the movie deals frankly with some very serious issues, including racism, injustice, and the sometimes tragic consequences of poor choices. The boys at Green Lake are not beaten, but they are treated very badly and do not always treat each other very well. Characters are in intense peril and some are killed. There is a gross wound and a character throws up on screen. A character commits suicide. There is some strong language for a PG movie. There are very devoted and loyal inter-racial relationships, including one that ends tragically due to prejudice.
Read our full review by Nell Minow
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about its themes of fate and choice. What actions in the movie seem to have been decided by fate (or a curse) and what were decided by the characters? How much of our present is influenced by or determined by the past? There are even more connections between the three stories than you see at first. How many can you find? If you pay close attention, there is something significant about when the boys use their real names and when they use their tough nicknames. What does that tell you? Why doesn't Stanley tell the truth in his letter to his mother? How is Stanley different at the end of the movie?
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Most Recent Reviews
- I rate this title iffy for age 8 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive consumerism
- My highlights are:
Best Movie
This is good movie if you want to learn how to stay out of trouble.
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
One of the best recent kid's movies
Extremely original in telling, "Holes" is a thrilling, exciting and harshly realistic look at unfairness, punishment and karma in the world, brilliantly portrayed by a then young Shia LaBeouf and Khleo Thomas.
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give it
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
good family movie!
Really good but the reptiles in the movie might scare the little ones!
- I rate this title iffy for age 9 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Pretty Good Show If Your 10 Or Older
How Could You Idiots Forget The Scene With The Lady With A Low Cut HALF TOP! ok bak 2 da point attempted suicide,uh people held at gunpoint,Knives,Murder,And Some Salty Langauge For a PG
- I rate this title iffy for age 12 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
Preview for youger viewers...
I loved this movie. Unfortunatly, there is quite a bit of language for a kids movie. a--, h-ll, d--n, crap, etc... The Lord's name is also taken in vain multiple times. The violence of the movie is slightly disturbing, even though there is never any gore.
- I rate this title on for age 6 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
awesome
very awesome
- I rate this title on for age 8 and give it
Great, fun movie for the family.
This movie is not violent! Are you kidding CS?!?! Fine for all ages!!!! Very good movie... has a great message.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
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- I rate this title on for age 8 and give it
Reviewing the movie Holes
Holes review. By: Sasha Sayenko This movie, Holes won 3 emmie awards. It is a great movie itself in my opinion, and it has great actors. The movie is about a heartwarming story of a 14 year old Boy named Stanley Yelnats who always ends up at the wrong place at the wrong time. Throughout this movie, it will give you a touch of adventure, comedy, family, and mystery. He (Stanley Yelnats the 5th) is a boy where bad luck runs through his blood. Why so? Ask his great great grandfather. Before Stanley was born, his grandfather fell in love with a young woman named Mariah. He wanted to marry her, but so did another man. Her father did not know who, so he decided, whoever has the biggest and prettiest pig in 1 week, will get his daughter. Sighing, Stanley’s grandfather didn’t know what to do, so he decided to go get help from madam Zeronii. She gave him a beautiful pig and when time came to look at the pigs, they where both sooo great, the her father did not know which one to pick. He then gave the job to his daughter. She was so stupid, she said that she would think of a number 1 to 10, and whoever was the closest, she would marry. Angrily, he didn’t like the proposition, and he left. A favor that he promised madam Zeronii was not done, so on her death bed she put a curse on Stanley’s grandfather that his generation of kids would also be cursed for eternity. Acting is one or is one of the most important things to do in a movie. Actually, without acting, there would really be no movie, there would be just sound, a setting and music. Acting is very hard. In a whole movie there are a lot of lines, and not only do you have to learn them, you have to say them with feeling and give emotion to it also. So like I said, acting a very hard job. To be a good actor, you have to go to a special school and learn and be in drama when your in schools such as middle school and high school. People such as Kiera Nighly, Eva Longoria, and other people, now that’s called experts on acting, Acting takes a lot of time, work, and energy, but its worth to have a good movie. I really liked this movie and it actually teaches you a life lesson. It teaches you to be good and to not take other peoples things, and it teaches friendship, it teaches how to be a good sportsman. And the acting scenery and the movie itself was awesome! Thought out the movie, I sat the whole time on the couch and not getting up. I liked it so much that that same day I watched it the second time! I recommend that you watch this movie and I guarantee that you will like it.
- I rate this title iffy for age 11 and give it
Holes is good.
Holes may have holes, but it almost never stumbles. The acting is good, it stays faithful to the book, and flashbacks are dealt with well.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
This si a good movie! I really enjoyed watching it, and I would watch it again any time! I recomend this move to kids and adults of all ages!
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
- I rate this title on for age 11 and give it
Great!!
I really love this movie! It plays a big part on being friends, which kids need these days. Also being honest. It has a good story line that both kids and adults can follow. A great movie to watch!!
- I rate this title on for age 11 and give it
LUV THIS MOVIE
THIS IS A MUST WATCH FOR OLDER CHILDREN AND TWEENS AND IS ENJOYABLE FOR ALL AGES
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
Great Stuff
I am 15 years old and when i saw this movie i was thinking o great here comes another disney movie for the 8 year olds...as soon as the movie began i knew i was wrong....it is a great movie and unlike most movies from books the movie can be compared to the great book..its that good, it makes you think, its a fun movie, its got great action, and it is good for the entire family
- I rate this title iffy for age 11 and give it
bad for young kids
this is a movie that has lots of bad words and violence
- I rate this title off for age 13 and give it
Absolutely inappropriate for elementary students
If your elementary school has this movie on their list of media choices. You want to review this movie before they show it. It deals with too many social and emotional concepts for your elementary student to understand, comprehend or even think about dealing with at this age. It will leave them with an uneasy feeling trying to work through the emotions they are left with.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
A Movie for Thinkers and Dectives; Holes
Holes was a wonderful that kept me guessing about about what's to happen next. If you are a concerned parant I would not be too worried. This movie though does show some characters commiting suicid, swearing, throwing up, and violence. The violence includs killing out of acts of racesim, attention, and threatening people at gun point. You don't see the people die (except in one case but there wasn't any blood she just got bitten)but you get the drift that they're dead. Tough you may not agree now it IS a children's movie and will be fine for 7 year olds and up. AlchemyPro 11 years old
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