A teenager is sent to a detention camp after being wrongly convicted of stealing, but is puzzled when the warden puts him to work digging random holes in the desert. Things get even stranger when he tries to escape, and is flung headlong into a mystery. Family adventure, based on Louis Sachar's book, starring Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette and Tim Blake Nelson.