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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT EAN: 0876964000833 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Magnolia Languages: Manufacturer: Magnolia MPN: 10083 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Magnolia Release Date: May 01, 2007 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Magnolia Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Editorial Review: Product Description: A funny heartfelt story about a tightly-knit group of friends who try to maintain their small-town way of life in the face of enormous changes in 1970s Long Island. Hunt (Paul Rudd) and his best friends Frankie Lozo (Ken Marino) Cons (Josh Hamilton) and Jack (Ron Eldard) are hard-living clam diggers whose livelihoods are threatened by an encroaching corporation forcing them to consider new directions in life.Runtime: 90 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 876964000833 Manufacturer No: 10083 Amazon.com: If Diner had taken place in clam country, it might have looked like Diggers. The Bicentennial is in effect, Jaws tops the box office, and amateur photographer Hunt (Paul Rudd) and friends carry on family tradition as clam diggers. Frankie (Ken Marino) has a wife (Sarah Paulson) and kids. Hunt, Jack (Ron Eldard), and Cons (Josh Hamilton) don't. They work hard, they party hard (Cons also serves as the local dealer). Things are about to change, though, as a corporation called South Shell threatens their Long Island livelihood by limiting the area in which they ply their trade. Then, Hunt loses his father, who was out clamming when his heart gave out. Now it's just him, his dispirited buddies, his diminishing career, and his newly divorced sister, Gina (Maura Tierney). Clearly, the time has come to make some tough decisions. Fortunately, Diggers isn't downbeat, but nor is it a comedy, despite the participation of part-time comedians, like Rudd (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Tierney (NewsRadio). There's a little humor mixed in with the drama, as in Hunt's flirtation with Manhattan visitor Zoe (Lauren Ambrose), but it's mostly a fond look back at a vanishing way of life. Directed by Katherine Dieckmann (A Good Baby) and written by Marino (MTV's The State), an actual digger's son, it's the kind of small-scale indie that could easily get overlooked, but deserves to be seen--not because it offers something startlingly original, but because it offers something heartfelt and unexpectedly moving. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Average Rating:
 Rating:  - DiggersI 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 ... Read More Rating:  - Thoroughly Satisfying and EnjoyableThis 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 ... Read More Rating: - 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. Rating:  - 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. Rating: - Static in Ordinary LivesCapturing 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 ... Read More |
