When you reach the end of the film, you may find yourself wondering whether these minor pleasures amount to anything more substantial and the sad reality is that they really don't.
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04/28/07
Diggers (2007)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:39
Rotten:17
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Though the plot may be familiar, Diggers is just pleasant, charming, and heartwarming enough to make it worth your while.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: DIGGERS combines humor and pathos in a bittersweet story about a tightly-knit cluster of friends, all of whom are forced to embrace change as their small-town way of life is soon to be altered... [More]
Starring: Lauren Ambrose, Ron Eldard, Josh Hamilton, Ken Marino
Director: Katherine Dieckmann
Reviews for Diggers
Diggers is what it is: human, funny and true to itself. If you even think you might know some of the people in the movie, you probably do.
04/26/07
Intimate '70s indie drama won't interest kids.
11/01/07
I was rooting for the 'Diggers' clan by the time this modest film ended. A talented cast of likable actors can do that for a thin script, and Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, Maura Tierney and Ron Eldard eventually won me over.
04/27/07
It is wholly Good. A pity that it doesn't have any real desire to be Great.
09/14/07
A character study with enough low key behavior and adaptation to modest circumstance to dig out a sense of reality, but no risk is taken that might elevate it to something adventurous and memorable.
03/08/07
A scruffy drama about four diggers on Long Island in 1976 who are dragged kicking and screaming into changing their lives.
04/27/07
Sweet, but you've seen it many times before. Until then it's a tragicomedy of entropy, a film that wonders what happens to men when they can't do the only thing they know how to.
04/27/07
It's not a plot-driven piece, but rather an examination of characters and how they are forced to come of age long after they should have.
04/24/07
Even when the episodic story wanders, the underlying sincerity and good humor of the piece is winning. It's amusing and affecting yet never sentimental.
04/26/07
Diggers has the conviction to avoid tying things up with a bow and allows us the privilege to imagine where its denizens will go afterward.
04/27/07
Top CriticIt's okay, but not something that I would dig around for.
05/29/07
Clam diggers don't venture into the deepest waters, and neither, for the most part, does the movie. [It] serves up any number of slight moves, the kind associated with films that keep their gazes narrow and content themselves with small revelations.
04/27/07
Marino proves to be quite a decent screenwriter. In a genre that tends to be routine and formulaic, Diggers stands out as something personal and meaningful.
04/24/07
No doubt there was hope for a manlier, brinier My Big Fat Greek Wedding. But that had better food -- and better jokes.
04/27/07
A sweet but supermellow tale that needs a shot of espresso on the side to keep things lively.
04/27/07
Though nothing too earth-shaking happens, the movie is filled with a slew of compelling scenes, strongly performed under director Katherine Dieckmann's discerning eye.
04/27/07
It feels very familiar in conceit and unadventurous in execution, but offers the undeniable pleasures of a well-observed, well-played modest seriocomedy.
09/18/06
Top CriticThe only way the movie works is if it has charismatic performers to explore these characters, and Diggers does.
04/26/07
A very detailed portrait of a time and place that is about to change forever. This is a Long Island of 1976 in someone's memory, like a faded Polaroid in an old shoebox.
05/05/08
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April 27, 2007:
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