Stanley Yelnats IV is a nice teenage boy who was born to an unlucky and cursed family. One day he gets falsely arrested and accused of stealing a pair of shoes that a famous baseball player had donated to charity and gets sentenced to Camp Green Lake, a correctional facility where teenage boys dig holes despite the presence of dangerously poisonous creatures. His family blames the curse on Stanley's ancestor Elya Yelnats for breaking a promise to a gypsy in years past. Stanley later sets out with his friend Hector Zeroni "Zero" to find a treasure that his great grandfather Stanley Yelnats I was unable to save from a famous thief named Kate Barlow. starring Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Dulé Hill, and introducing Shia LaBeouf; also starring Henry Winkler, Nate Davis, Rick Fox, Scott Plank, Roma Mattia, Eartha Kitt, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Khleo Thomas, Brenden Jefferson, Jake M. Smith, Byron Cotton, Miguel Castro, Max Kasch, and Noah Poletiek. Andrew Davis directs from the screenplay by Louis Sachar; Based on his own 1998 Farrar, Straus and Giroux novel. Produced by Mike Medavoy, Davis, Teresa Tucker-Davies and Lowell Blank • Executive Producers: Marty Ewing and Louis Phillips. Music by Joel McNeely; Music Supervisor: Karyn Rachtman. a Chicago Pacific Entertainment/Phoenix Pictures production for Walt Disney Pictures, with Walden Media. an Andrew Davis film. "In loving memory of Scott Plank" Filmed around the Los Angelss, CA area - including the Red Rock Canyon State Park, and Disney's Golden Oak Village - circa Spring '02 with Panavision® cameras & lenses - in Technicolor®, shot on Fuji film, processed by FotoKem. Approved [No. 39623]/rated PG for its violence; for mild language; and for some thematic elements. Walden Media and its skipping stone logo are ™s of/Copyright © 2003 Walden Media, LLC All rights reserved