After being wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley Yelnats is sent away to Camp Green Lake, a boys detention facility where inmates are forced to dig holes all day in the hot desert sun as a form of character building. But Stanley and the other boys start to unravel a mystery, linked with the camps tough-as-nails warden —and possibly Stanley’s family itself.

• DirectorAndrew Davis
• Release18 April 2003
• Genre
  Adventure / Family
• Duration1h 57m
• Budget$20,000,000
• Revenue$71,406,573
• Rate
  

  6.9
  1482 reviews
• Productions

  Phoenix Pictures, Chicago Pacific Entertainment, Walden Media, Walt Disney Pictures, Summit Entertainment