hole be a fable about the past and the way it affect the present life of at least three people . one of them i will name and the other two be mystery and will remain so . hole be a story about stanley yelnats iv . he be unlucky in life . unlucky in fact characterize the fate of most of the yelnats men and have be since exploit of stanley iv ` no good dirty rotten pig steal great great grandfather . those particular exploit curse the family men to many an ill fat turn . it be during just such a turn that we meet stanley iv . he have be accuse and falsely and of steal a pair of baseball shoe and freshly donate to a homeless shelter auction and by a famous baseball player . he be give the option of jail and or he can go to a character building camp . ` i have never be to camp before and say stanley . with that the judge enthusiastically send him off to camp green lake . camp green lake be an odd place and with an odd philosophy and ` if you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun and it will turn him into a good boy . we learn this little pearl of wisdom from mr. sir ( john voight ) one of the camp ` counselor . we get the impression right away that he be a dangerous man . he at least wear his attitude honestly while he doesn not think he be nice . the camp guidance councilor and mr. pendanski ( tim blake nelson ) be a different matter entirely . he act the part of the care sensitive counselor and but he quick and quick than anyone else in authority to unleash the most cruel verbal barb at his charge . the warden have a decided capacity for meanness and but other than that she be a mystery . these three rule camp green lake and a place that have no lake . it be just a dry dusty desert fill with hole and five foot deep and five foot wide . it local fauna and seem only to be the vulture and and dangerous poisonous yellow spot lizard . green lake seem be and in many way and a haunted place . hole work in spite of the strange setting and and the strange story and because it understand people . specifically because it be honest in the way it deal with the inmate of camp green lake . the movie capture the way boys interact with one another perfectly . it capture the way boys can bully each other and they way they can win admiration and the way they fight with one another and and the way boys ally themselves along the age line . it be this well nuanced core that make everything else in the film believable . what be also refresh about this film the good nature of it main character . he do not believe in a family curse and he be not bitter about the infamous exploit of his ` no good dirty rotten pig steal great great grandfather . in fact he love hear the story . stanley iv be not bitter about the past and and determine not let it affect him in the way it have affect his father and grandfather . there be at time a lot of sadness in the film and but not a lot wallow angsty silliness . and that be refresh . hole be an intelligent and insightful and witty family movie . it entertain and and not in any cheap way . it be not a comedy and though it have it laugh . it dare to be compelling and where many family movie tend to play it safe and conventional . a such it transcend the family movie genus and simply become a good film that everyone can enjoy . i give it a 10 .