more than just a kid movie and hole look at how past incident still affect u today and whether we know about them or not . when teenager stanley yelnats iii ( shia leboeuf ) get send to a prison camp where he be force to dig all day long and he discover a number of thing about the camp and and his personal connection to it . through flashback and we learn that a number of thing be close than we realize ( you will understand this good when you see the movie ) . leboeuf do a pretty good job and a do the other cast member represent sigourney weaver and jon voight and tim blake nelson and henry winkler and patricia arquette and and eartha kitt . a very interesting movie .