Differences
Between Holes
Book and Film
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The same from the Book and the film
Mary Lou is a donkey
Kissin Kate dies to a yellow spotted lizard
Zero runs away with a shovelxx
Characters and names and surnames
Most of the storyline
The Warden
Zero
Stanley
X-Ray
Zig-Zag
Barf Bag
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In the book...
In the film...
Trout is called Trout because his feet smell like
fish. His real name is Charles.
The source of his nickname is never
mentioned, nor is his real name.
Elya's wife Sarah Miller appears.
She is neither seen nor mentioned.
Igor Barkov plays a big role in chapter seven.
Igor Barkov plays a very minor role in the mole
in the movie.
The foot odor cure is only from peaches.
The foot odor cure is made of peaches and
onions.
Mr. Sir's backstory is not revealed in great
detail.
It is revealed he is a paroled criminal who
commited a crime in El Paso in Texas.
In the book...
In the film...
Mr. Pendanski never uses the title "Dr."
He introduces himself to Stanley as, "Dr.
Pendanski".
There are flashbacks to Stanley being picked
on at school.
These flashbacks are not shown in the film, but
are shown in the deleted scenes on the DVD.
Sam and Kate are outside in the rain when they
kiss, and they are spotted by Hattie Parker,
who exclaims to them that, "God will punish
you!"
They are inside the schoolhouse when they
kiss, and are spotted by Trout Walker, who
rides by the window on his horse. He sees
them, and angrily rides away.
Kate is with Sam when he gets shot in his boat.
Kate is on the side of the lake, sees Sam. being
shot in the distance, in his boat.
the contents of the chest are not valued as
much as in the movie. The jewelry comes to
about $25,000 and the bonds are valued at just
below 2 million dollars, “Stanley and Zero each
received less than a million dollars, but not by
much.”
The contents are valued much higher. Stanley
stating that one of the bonds, which was worth
only $25,000 in 1805, is now worth "Millions".
When Mr. Sir is scratched across his cheek, he
stays still for a few seconds, and then screams
and falls
He immediately screams and falls backwards
over a chair.
Stanley is accidently hit in the back of the head
with a shovel by Zigzag, leaving a big gash.
Everyone acts concerned by his accident, and
Mr. Sir bandages his wound.
In a deleted scene, Squid angrily accidentally
hits Stanley with the shovel. No one is
concerned by his accident except for Zero, who
helps him up when he falls.
Sam agrees to fix the roof for six jars of spiced
peaches.
Sam only asks for three.
Zero first throws up and then rolls a little part
down the mountain until Stanley caught him (In
When Stanley and Zero were climbing the
mountain the bugs were flying around them but
when Zero threw up he stayed there.
the book he just stood up by himself and didn't
fall)
Also the bugs came after they were up the
mountain.
When Stanley is on top of the mountain he first
has to dig for water.
When they're up the mountain there is a little
stream and they can drink without digging first.
In the book...
In the film...
When Stanley and Zero are in the hole with the
lizards, Mr. Sir tells Stanley that his lawyer
came by the day before to pick him up.
Instead of Mr. Sir, Mr. Pendanski told him that.
The Warden tries to tell Ms. Morengo about
Stanley's attempt at stealing the water truck.
She didn't mention it.
Right before Stanley leaves Camp Green Lake,
Squid wants Stanley to call his mom and
apologize for him.
In the movie, Armpit asked that.
In the party at the last scene, the book states
that there were only adults in the party except
for Stanley and Zero.
Everyone from D tent is also in the party.
Stanley is overweight in the book.
Stanley is fairly skinny.
The water truck is red in the book.
In the movie, it's silver.
Ms. Morengo was described as being short.
She was easily shorter than Stanley.
Roma Maffia is 5'10", taller than Shia LaBeouf,
who's 5'9".
It starts raining after Stanley and Zero get in the
car to go home.
It starts raining when they're still standing
outside the headquarters building.
X-Ray is much nicer to Stanley and when being
released, he wished him well telling him "Be
careful out there in the real world a'ight?
Everyone's not as friendly as us". He asks him
to hold on and even states he will miss Stanley.
When the boys from group D go out to Stanley
and Zero, X-Ray stays at the back and simply
walks back into the Wreck Room.
Ms. Morengo drives a BMW.
She drives a Jaguar.
When Zero was choking Zigzag, Mr. Pendanski
fired a pistol into the air.
He fired a rifle into the air.
Kate was in a cabin when Trout found her and
demanded that she tell him where the chest
was.
She was lying against Sam's overturned boat
out in the desert.
The Warden stabs Armpit with a pitchfork for
going to the bathroom too much.
In a deleted scene, Magnet gets stabbed.
Green Lake is converted into a girl scouts
camp.
In the movie, it was mentioned Green lake
would be converted into a girl scout camp.
In the book...
In the film...
In the part where Kate dies Trout Walker first
makes her walk around on the dry lake bed,
burning her feet.
Kate Barlow immediately kills herself.
Kate Barlow is unintentionally bitten on the
ankle by a yellow-spotted lizard.
She intentionally lets it bite her on the arm.
Kate Barlow does not hallucinate nor does she
lie down on the boat.
When she is lying on the boat, she hallucinates
Sam walking up to her and saying “I can fix
that.”
The Warden's venomous nail polish is dark
red.
The Warden's venomous nail polish is pink and
glittery.