Holes
Movie • 2003 • Adventure
ReportStanley's family is cursed with bad luck. Unfairly sentenced to months of detention at Camp Green Lake, he and his campmates are forced by the warden to dig holes in order to build character. What they don't know is that they are digging holes in order to search for a lost treasure hidden somewhere in the camp.
This movie contains 39 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
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Unanswered Triggers
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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TinyWatermelon2
Zero was left by his mom
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Implied about some characters, and an abusive grandfather shown at the end
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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nh17
The Warden
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Is someone gaslighted?
11 supporters
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Anonymous
Emotional abuse (such as telling a child he's stupid) and lying (covering up when a child goes missing), not gaslighting. It's serious but it's pretty straightforward and obvious, it's not particularly manipulative.
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sorryboutit
The movie takes place at a juveline detention camp. The kids talk about their home lives which weren't all healthy. The children at the camp are also put to work digging holes and treated poorly by the people running the camp.
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Addiction
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Skeee
No, But it is mentioned that one of the characters has quit smoking.
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Is there addiction?
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HoboJoe
One character is attempting to overcome an addiction to nicotine by busying himself with sunflower seeds.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Hiro
Yes, in a flashback the sheriff is drunk and attempts to force a kiss on an unwilling woman.
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Animal
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Does a horse die?
27 supporters
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WartyGoblin
A donkey is killed offscreen, and her body is shown.
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Anonymous
pretty sure an iguana or lizard gets shot also a dead donkey/mule is shown
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Are there spiders?
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There is a scorpion
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Are there snakes?
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Dblwhack
Opening scene has a rattlesnake.
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Are there bugs?
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scout.
Flies, mosquitos. Nothing festering though.
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Assault
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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TinyWatermelon2
Stanley gets in a fight with ZigZag after he gets water and ZigZag makes fun of him
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Drunk sherriff aggressively tries to kiss a girl
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Anonymous
A character is choked in a fight. No one is seriously harmed.
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Is someone choked?
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Hiro
One character choke another, but is stopped.
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Is there a hanging?
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crunchy
it is mentioned that they are going to hang someone but it does not end up happening
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Does someone become unconscious?
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StardustWhip
While Stanley and Zero are climbing a mountain, Zero falls unconscious and Stanley has to carry him the rest of the way.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Broken nose implied/shown swollen
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Does someone fall to their death?
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scout.
There is a scene where it almost happens while on a mountain.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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TinyWatermelon2
It is implied that Barfbag dies
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a parent die?
4 supporters
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One character is said to be an orphan and another has a missing parent, but no deaths of parents are shown or discussed. Some of the kids are pretty convinced their parents don't care about them, though (with good reason, as far as we know).
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Fear
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Are there ghosts?
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There is a brief moment when Stanley is being driven to camp Green Lake, we see a brief glimpse of Sam, who we know is dead. It's possible that the audience Stanley sees is a ghost
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Are there jumpscares?
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nh17
A few brief startling moments that might count
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Overview shot of all the holes at the beginning could be triggering, after that it's not bad
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Is there a shower scene?
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HoboJoe
No nudity, brief, and no more than one person involved, but yes.
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
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sorryboutit
While climbing a mountain Zero pukes
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Does someone spit?
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sorryboutit
Mr. Sir eats sunflower seeds and spits into the dirt a few times.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Mr. Pendanski refers to the boys with their legal names, rather than their nicknames. When Stanley innocently calls Armpit by his name, he gets physical and corrects him. It's not given the same weight as an actual dead naming, but could be triggering to someone with that kind if trauma.
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Medical
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HoboJoe
Early on, a character willfully subjects himself to a snakebite, if that counts. Injury not shown, act of harm not shown.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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nh17
Some of the harassment towards Zero could be interpreted that way
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
7 supporters
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Is there misophonia?
14 supporters
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olivialynne
One character frequently (loudly) eats sunflower seeds onscreen.
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sephkleio
Around 1:35, a character purposefully gets themself bitten by a lizard that the movie spends the whole time emphasizing that getting bit by said lizard will result in a painful death. The character dies here.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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scout.
Two people stuck in a hole unable to get out.
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Noxious
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Paranoia
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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One of the boys joke to Stanley that the Warden has cameras everywhere, including the showers, but this is not confirmed.
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
14 supporters
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TinyWatermelon2
Stanley gets made fun of for being a bit larger than the other kids
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Is there hate speech?
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sorryboutit
There are some flashbacks to the olde West. There is an interracial relationship between a white woman and a black man. SPOILERS: he gets lynched and her building is burned because someone saw them kissing.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Hiro
Characters intelligence is insulted often, using words such as "stupid".
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
9 supporters
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Anonymous
Not exactly, but a bad guy is embarrassed when it turns out his first name is "Marion" and this is treated as a joke.
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Does the black guy die first?
5 supporters
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Anonymous
shown during a flashback in which a mob attacks an interracial couple
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Are there n-words?
6 supporters
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onehorseopenslay
not sure about the movie, but the book uses "n*gro"
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
14 supporters
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Minor characters in the past get married - earlier kn the past, the woman was shown as still a child when he was well into his 20s-30s
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
26 supporters
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Are there nude scenes?
6 supporters
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Hiro
Characters change clothes and shower, but nothing is shown.
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
3 supporters
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Anonymous
Not literally crying, but a joke is made of one adult character being sensitive. He's pretty awful to kids so in context, them making fun of him is justified (it's "punching up").
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Sickness
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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nh17
A character talks about how he was living on the streets. In the book, the main character wonders if that will happen to him
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Spoiler
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
1 supporters
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Anonymous
"Maybe the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy are still alive, too." (when discussing characters who they think aren't still alive)
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
4 supporters
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spooksboo
A truck crashes into a hole, if that bothers anyone.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
3 supporters
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Anonymous
In the beginning, tires screech when a police car pulls up suddenly.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
16 supporters
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sorryboutit
A character gets scratched on the face and it looks a little infected. There's a montage of Kissing Kate Barlow that shows the men she murdered. Zero gets a cut on his hands trying to pull Stanley up with a shovel, it's on screen briefly.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there gun violence?
5 supporters
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16
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spooksboo
A man shoots a lizard and threatens to shoot a few kids.
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