Holes

Holes (2003)

28 corrected entries

(25 votes)

Corrected entry: In the beginning where Barf Bag gets bitten by a rattle snake, Zero is in the background. Then, a few seconds later, Stanley gets hit by the shoes. If Zero threw the shoes, how could he be in 2 places at once? (00:02:00)

Correction: That scene is more of a flashback showing why there was a vancancy at Camp Green Lake for Stanley. Then it cuts to the present.

Corrected entry: How did the Yelnats family afford a high priced attorney driving a Jaguar when they were about to be evicted from their apartment? Even if the curse were over, the shoe deoderizer product would take a long time to get to market and all their funds would be spent on that process, not getting Stanley out of a camp his family believes he is really enjoying.

Correction: This is explained in the book: The lawyer had been hired to help Mr. Yelnats with patenting his product, etc. and agreed to help prove Stanley's innocence.

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, Stanely Yelnats is wearing a bright red baseball cap. After spending some time at Camp Green Lake, it is the exact colour of his jumpsuit, orange. It looks like the sun faded it, but then later on in the movie, it is bright red again.

Correction: Stanley has two hats: a red one he got before he went to Camp Green Lake and an orange one that is faded because other campers had worn it out in the sun before him.

Corrected entry: When he's under the boat, Zero breaks open the last jar - he even says that it's the last jar, and he broke the glass/top of the jar. Later when they're on the mountain that looks like a thumb, when he's eating onions there's a full closed jar sitting there beside him.

NHogan

Correction: This is explained in the book. Zero discovers the sploosh, the canned spiced peaches from 100 years ago, and eats some by opening the jars. The last jar could not be opened by either Stanley or Zero, so in order to open it, it had to be broken. Now before they left the overturned boat, they put some of the sploosh jars in the burlap bag that Stanley found, in case they needed them later for some reason. It turned out that they did need them later to store the water they found on big thumb. The reason Zero said that it was the last jar is because it was the only one with sploosh left in it.

Corrected entry: In the trailer, they always show this shot of the desert, they show there are hundreds of holes dug in the desert, all deep enough to be black inside, but there is NO DIRT laying around from where all the holes have been dug.

Correction: If you watch them digging the dirt in the movies, you see that the dirt is so dusty, it gets blown away with the wind. When they dug the huge, tunnel-like hole, the Warden provided them with wheelbarrows to carry the dirt away.

Corrected entry: In the scene where the female lawyer comes for Stanley's release, she says he has been found to be innocent. The only person who knew he was innocent was Zero. How did the court know to drop charges and set him free?

Correction: I can't remember if this is explained in the movie, but in the book she says that she interveiwed some of the students who said that they saw Stanley at the time the shoes were stolen, so he couldn't have taken them.

Corrected entry: When Sam is working on Miss Katherine's windows, Miss Katherine is reading a poem to a student. After Sam recites the end of the poem, Miss Katherine explains that her door doesn't hang straight. Sam then looks toward the chalkboard and says,"I can fix that." In other scenes and shots you can see that the door is really on the opposite wall facing the chalk board.

Correction: He doesn't have to look at the door to make this reply, he just looks away from Miss Katherine, not a mistake.

Corrected entry: They say that there is only one tree at Camp Green Lake, and that is at the warden's cabin. Stanley even says that the warden owns the shade when the other boys are complaining about the heat. However, When they are at the camp base you see trees all over the place.

Correction: In the book, there's only one tree. The movie doesn't have to be exactly the same.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Stanley and Zero are digging to find the chest toward the end of the movie, the background behind them is just a dirt wall. In a following shot upon discovering the box, there are stairs that lead to the hole. In the next shot, these stairs are gone again and it's just the hole again. (01:38:05)

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Mr. Sir: I ain't on stupid pills!

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Trivia: When the cast and crew were filming Holes, they filmed it in an actual desert where the temperature reached to 50C(120F). They only filmed 20 minutes at a time so they wouldn't suffer from the extreme heat.

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Question: In Mr Sir's office when he gives a drink to the guard, is it Coca-Cola because it looks like it. If not, can someone tell me what it is?

Macca

Chosen answer: It appears to be in fact a Coca-Cola bottle, it has been turned in an attempt to not show the logo.

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