Based on Louis Sachar's Newbury award-winning book, this coming-of-age adventure applies fairy-tale elements to a gritty situation, with surprisingly interesting results. Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) is plagued with bad luck, which his family attributes to the curse placed on his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather" generations earlier, so it seems inevitable that he finds himself sentenced to serve eighteen months at a juvenile correctional facility for a crime he didn't commit. Upon arrival at Camp Green Lake — ironically, a dusty and very dry former lake bed, courtesy of a long-term drought — Stanley meets camp employees Mr. Sir (Jon Vo...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG
Length:
111 mins