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Diggers - Review
Length: 86 min Rated: R Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: 2007-04-27 Starring: Paul Rudd, Lauren Ambrose, Ron Eldard, Josh Hamilton, Sarah Paulson, Ken Marino, Maura Tierney
Directed by by Katherine Dieckmann
Produced by Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente, Anne Chaisson, Ken Marino
Written by Ken Marino
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Paul Rudd leads a spot-on cast as Hunt, a third generation clam digger living and working in 1976 Long Island, who is watching big business edge out the trade he learned from his father and grandfather. Hunt doesn’t seem particularly engaged by digging, but also fears moving away from the only life he’s ever known. The death of his father jolts him into striking up a relationship with a party girl visiting from Manhattan (Lauren Ambrose), who encourages him to do more with the black-and-white Polaroids he takes. Hunt also sees his relationship with his sister (Maura Tierney) strained by her relationship with his friend Jack (Ron Eldard), the local womanizer. Hunt’s other friends, the drug dealing philosophizer Cons (Josh Hamilton) and the married Lozo (Ken Marino, who also penned the script), deal with their own issues. Marino is great as a foul-mouthed father of four who constantly fights with his wife (Sarah Paulson) but couldn’t contemplate life without her. “She’s my heart” he tells Hunt, and by the time he utters the line, we’ve already seen it. It’s not that the characters don’t arc from the beginning to the end, but more importantly they open up and show us their humanity. The movie isn't played broadly for laughs (although there is humor) or for deep melancholy. Rather, real people deal with real issues in a warm way that makes us glad we got to sit in with them for a short period. The acting is a real strength and there isn’t a trace of artificiality to them or their performances. Still, the somewhat unoriginal plot does tend to bathe everything in a “been-there done-that” feel. But if you can look past that and the lack of any real heft in what is happening and just focus on the performances and the laid back attitude, it’s an enjoyable time.
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August 1st, 2007 at 04:29
I purchased this movie to add it to my collection of Maura Tierney films. I didn't expect to enjoy the rest of the cast as much as I did. It is a finely crafted piece of work that shows the evolution and melding of it's cast. I expected a stellar performance form Tierney and was not disappointed. I didn't expect her to slip into the character as completely as she did.....even though I should have. Her accent was totally unexpected and the only one that sounded completely natural throughout the film. Paul Rudd.....quietly unassuming and yet you felt his disatisfaction - yet compliancy - with his life. Ken Marino and Sarah Paulson....my least favorite situation until the end. ...and that was the way it was supposed to be. Ron Eldard? Okay....so I am slowly losing that vision of the ultimate creepo that he played in "Bastard Out of Carolina'. Even your squeaky clean blind astronaut wasn't able to accomplish that! Josh Hamilton...made me totally love Cons. What a character! The ONLY thing that I found disturbing was the language. Why is it that presumably highly educated people feel that they need to use profanity when they write as a 'real person'??? Not all of us are as proficient or comfortable with the 'f' word as you think.