Diggers: Critic Reviews

Meticulously assembled, Diggers shuttles among several major characters with an ease and grace that don't waste a moment of screen time. But it doesn't feel rushed.

Never quite breaks out of its talky inertia.

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.

What separates Diggers from its kin -- notably the Ed Burns movies -- is the testosterone balance of its masculine script and Dieckmann's sensitive direction. Maybe we need more buddy movies by women.

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.

The prospect of change is complicated, but Diggers is also a reminder of the powerful simplicity of friendship.

The best thing in Diggers, besides the close-up of the back end of the Vista Cruiser, is the interplay between Rudd and Tierney.

Smart and sensitive.

Fresh as today's catch and about as tasty.

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.

It feels very familiar in conceit and unadventurous in execution, but offers the undeniable pleasures of a well-observed, well-played modest seriocomedy.

A modestly charming film.

This nicely observed dramedy about '70s-era Hamptons clam-diggers hits a dramatic bottleneck.

[A] small charmer.

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.

Diggers is all shell and no neck and belly.

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.

Intimate '70s indie drama won't interest kids.

It is wholly Good. A pity that it doesn't have any real desire to be Great.

The subdued tale is light on plot but heavy on characterization, and the result is a likable effort that benefits greatly from its agreeable cast.

It's okay, but not something that I would dig around for.

It's rather harmless, and it does have it's moments.

A sweet and charming throwback to the ensemble dramas that fueled the cinema of the 1970s and 80s

A rather drab dramedy that, despite the title and some very real virtues, doesn't really dig deep or true enough.

I can't recommend this movie enough.