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 47 potentially triggering events.
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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
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Implied about some characters, and an abusive grandfather shown at the end
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Kate's school house is burnt down to make a point after she rejected a man's advances and kissed another.
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The Warden
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Is someone gaslighted?
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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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Hiro
Yes, in a flashback the sheriff is drunk and attempts to force a kiss on an unwilling woman.
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Does a horse die?
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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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Is there a dead animal?
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Ztars
Yes. Mary Lou, the donkey, gets killed and a lizard gets shot
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Does a pet die?
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Sam's donkey Mary Lou
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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
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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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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Are any hands damaged?
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gonzogm
Towards the end Stanley and Hector (Zero) are climbing a cliff with the help of a shovel and Hector's hands are badly cut by the shovel.
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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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Does a kid die?
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TinyWatermelon2
It is implied that Barfbag dies
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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I would argue that yes a main character dies despite the minimal screen time. I consider Sam a main character in the flashbacks for Kate Barlow's life, which are a very important informational piece in the movie.
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Does a non-human character die?
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Ztars
Yes, Mary Lou
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Does someone die?
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Skiddicat
Both Sam and Kate die in flashbacks
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Disability
Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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Ztars
Noah Poletiek, the guy who played Twitch, acted as if he had tourettes in the movie since Twitch suffers from this in the book.
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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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
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 jump scares?
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nh17
A few brief startling moments that might count
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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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Are there natural bodies of water?
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SiobhanRay
The lake is seen in a flashback years ago before it dried up
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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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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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EmilyHurley
I can just close my eyes when Zero v* on the mountain (it's easy to see coming), but I remember being uncomfortable at the beginning with the camper's nickname "barfbag" and the fact that Stanley had to use his bed that had a stain on it (no v* just a stain).
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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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Is there incarceration?
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SiobhanRay
The movie is set at a juvenile detention camp, which the boys are sent to instead of jail
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LGBTQ+
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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SiobhanRay
Mr. Sir's birth name is revealed at the end, and he expresses embarrassment at having a feminine-sounding name, which the boys make fun of him for. See previous comment about nicknames as well.
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Loss
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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Ztars
Not sure if this counts, but a kid has Tourette syndrome and a boy has Acute paranoia
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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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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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Ztars
Kinda, when a boy purposely steps on a snake to get bit and infected with it's venom
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Is there misophonia?
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olivialynne
One character frequently (loudly) eats sunflower seeds onscreen.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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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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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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Noxious
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Paranoia
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
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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 usages of the n-word?
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onehorseopenslay
not sure about the movie, but the book uses "n*gro"
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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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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Are there fat jokes?
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TinyWatermelon2
Stanley gets made fun of for being a bit larger than the other kids
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Does the black guy die first?
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Anonymous
shown during a flashback in which a mob attacks an interracial couple
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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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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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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
Are there nude scenes?
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Hiro
Characters change clothes and shower, but nothing is shown.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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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
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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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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Are there end credit scenes?
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gonzogm
Yes. There are cool songs during the credits (one of which is done by the child actors O believe) and then a stinger scene at the end of the credits.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Anonymous
In the beginning, tires screech when a police car pulls up suddenly.
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Does a car crash?
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spooksboo
A truck crashes into a hole, if that bothers anyone.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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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.
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Is there gun violence?
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spooksboo
A man shoots a lizard and threatens to shoot a few kids.
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