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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Holes
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Not age appropriate for kids under 8, age appropriate for kids over 10; suggested age 10. -
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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.
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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
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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
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- Good role models
good family movie!
Really good but the reptiles in the movie might scare the little ones!
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| 75% | of parents say it's too violent |
| 50% | of parents say there are good role models |
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