Holes

Continuity mistake: Trout Walker has a gold tooth. In the scenes where he is wealthy it is on the left side of his mouth. In the scene where he is poor and dusty, pointing a gun at Kate, it on the right side of his mouth.

Continuity mistake: When Stanley finds the lipstick tube of K.B., X-Ray takes the tube then Stanley stops him. We see two angles (in front and behind) and Squid keeps changing his spot from left to right every time we see a new angle.

Continuity mistake: At the end part, when the kids at Camp Green Lake go dance in the rain, we see Zero looking up and his hair is in the air. In a different camera angle, his hair is put down by the rain. But when the camera returns to him looking up, his hair is up again.

Continuity mistake: When Mr. Pedanski is explaining Camp Green Lake to Stanley, X-Ray, Armpit, and Squid come. Then right before X-Ray says, "Go ahead Pit" there is a shot with Mr. Pedanski and Stanley and there are two boys walking together. Then when we see Stanley and Mr. Pedanski again they're gone only for one boy.

Continuity mistake: When Sam is being chased out into the lake there is some sort of ball right beside his boat when he gets shot, but when they shoot him the ball has disappeared.

Continuity mistake: At the beginning when Stanley is digging his first hole, he has gloves in some shots and doesn't in others. (Specifically when he's complaining about the other guys' dirt).

Continuity mistake: In the scene at the end where the Yeltnats open the chest you can see Stanley's father with rubber gloves on, he takes his left glove off to look at the stock papers. You see him with his right glove on still, then Stanley takes one of the papers from his father and he doesn't have any gloves on, and in the next shot he has it back on his right hand.

Continuity mistake: In the scene when Zero and Stanley get to the top of God's Thumb Mountain, Stanley splashes Zero with some of the muddy water. Zero goes from having no mud on him, then having mud on him (before even getting in the water), to only having mud on his back (before getting in the water), to having mud on him (after in the water), to finally having no more mud on him (after being in the water).

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Continuity mistake: When Stanley is getting into the orange suit when he first arrives, he buttons a button, then falls. Then he finishes buttoning his suit and goes outside with "Mom". When he's outside some of the buttons are unbuttoned.

Continuity mistake: When the boys were saying nobody messes with the Caveman, you see from behind X-Ray that both Magnet and X-Ray have their elbows on the pool table, but in the next shot X-Ray has his hands on the table and Magnet is going to put his elbows on the pool table.

Continuity mistake: When Stanley first asked Armpit where to get water, Armpit throws him to the ground and the boys crowd over Armpit's shoulder in the close up. But from behind we see that the boys are more spread out.

Continuity mistake: When the Warden says to Stanley, "I still expect 7 holes." Stanley has his hat off, but in the next shot his hat is on again.

Continuity mistake: When Zero and Stanley are going to God's Thumb, they try going up the higher part of the cliff. Right after Stanley is near falling, it shows Zero placing his shovel to his side in pain from his cuts. In the next shot, he pushes it away again.

Continuity mistake: When Stanley is calling for Zero, the flap on the back of his hat keeps changing when the angles change.

Continuity mistake: When Zero starts running away the warden we see from behind carrying her arms low. She says "don't shoot" then there is a shot of her front and she has her hands on her hips.

Continuity mistake: When Stanley first goes into the Warden's cabin there's a short shot of him looking up and analyzing the place with his hair a little messy and sticking up. Next shot his hair's neater.

Continuity mistake: In the scene when Armpit is doing his little break dance and lifts up his arms, Squid keeps appearing in and out of shots.

Continuity mistake: When Mr. Sir gets angry at the boy who said, "What happened to your face?" he asks the campers if he looks good and you see D-Tent sitting in the upper left hand corner, everyone is sitting down. In the close up of D-Tent, X-Ray and Armpit are standing then. In the next shot with Mr. Sir, you see Armpit and X-Ray going to sit down. Then back to Mr. Sir, you see X-Ray standing. (01:01:05)

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Mr. Sir: There ain't nothing down there. We woulda found it by now.
Mr. Pendanski: I wouldn't tell the queen bee that.
Mr. Sir: I ain't on stupid pills!

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Trivia: When the cast and crew were filming Holes, they filmed it in an actual desert where the temperature reached to 50C(120F). They only filmed 20 minutes at a time so they wouldn't suffer from the extreme heat.

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Question: Are all the boys sentenced to 18 months at Camp Green Lake, or have different sentences?

Answer: More than likely, different lengths of sentences depending on the crime and severity of it, just like a prison sentence is different based on that.

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