Diggers (2006)

Diggers

I thought this was a well scripted well acted film. Set in the mid 70's, which bought back memories, Ken Marino not only done a great job writing the film but he was excellent acting in it as well. His character was my favourite. Working hard to put food on the table for his family, the only one of the four friends who is married and has 5 kids and a 6th on the way. Good humour in places. Paul Rudd was great as the lonely 30 something held back in this small town by family. Ron Eldard played the womaniser very well with his boyish good looks. Josh Hamilton added alot of the humour with his pot smoking hippy character typical of the times. All in all a great film, I would recommend watching to anyone. March 3, 2008

Thoroughly Satisfying and Enjoyable

This is another one of those movies that straddles the line between comedy and poignance. This is an excellent movie with an awesome cast. You really get an idea for the difficulties and lifestyle of these clam diggers. You know these guys are toast and how they're clinging to a life that is long gone.
The character who wrote the screenplay and acts as the least-favorable character was just an awesome actor. Also, Paul Rudd [of 40-Year old virgin fame, among others] is really impressing me for the quality of his acting. He's just a likeable, funny actor that you can't take your eyes off.
Totally recommended movie. Awesome. As good as "Herman USA" November 20, 2007

Dig in and watch this little gem...

I was afraid to be the first to rate 5 stars but my wife and I loved this one! I missed if they were friends from childhood but it seemed so. There's your verbally abusive husband/father, the too cool ladies man, the intellectual pothead, and your rather average main character. Four friends who don't always see eye-to-eye but have each other's back when needed. All with supurb acting, seventyish style dress, and laughs throughout made it refreshing to watch.

Good movie, we recommend. November 14, 2007

Don't waste your time.

The only good thing I can say about this movie is that Paul Rudd looks good with a beard. Diggers is a vulgar, crude, and depressing movie. October 14, 2007

Static in Ordinary Lives

Capturing a bit of Americana, a parcel of life foreign in nature to our own, has offered the opportunity to appreciate the diversity of living and of people in this country populated by ordinary yet extraordinary beings. Films that have focused on little family ventures ('Mystic Pizza'-type films) make us examine our own niche and grow to love variations on a single theme. DIGGERS, as written by Ken Marino (who also stars), is just such a story, a window on the life of clam diggers in the shores off Long Island. Yet as directed by Katherine Dieckmann and acted by a particularly fine cast, DIGGERS addresses the changes that occur in each of us as we progress from teenagers to adults - and all the potentially crippling and thrilling factors that can and do arise.

Four friends who dig for clams as their families have done for generations interact on levels of levity and anger, support and misunderstanding, and woven through the background of these four men's lives are the women (and children) who influence them. The apparently disparate men include wannabe photographer Hunt (Paul Rudd), procreator Lozo (Ken Marino), druggie philosopher Cons (Josh Hamilton), and womanizer Jack (Ron Eldard). Their lives intersect on many levels: the women in their lives - Hunt's needy divorced sister Gina (Maura Tierney) who after their father's death falls for Jack, Hunt's 'summer girlfriend' Zoey (Lauren Ambrose), and Lozo's constantly pregnant wife Julie (Sarah Paulson) - and the changes in the entire business of clamming rights as big business steps into the water. How these characters cope with the static that jars their day-to-day existence may seem small in importance to an outsider, but by the end of the film, we 'the outsiders' have grown to know and appreciate and love this little band of fellow beings.

The cast displays excellent ensemble acting and while the film has its rough edges, so does the little corner of the world described. It is a quiet little film, all the more beautiful for being so unpretentious. Grady Harp, August 07
August 31, 2007

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