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Digging for Fire
The film concentrates on the life of a couple Tim and Lee with their young child. One day, Tim’uncovers suddenly a bone and a old gun in the yard which makes him have a new idea. Although, Lee does not agree with his idea, he fulfills his plan with his friends.
11 August 1974, New York City, New York, USA
9 February 1949, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
25 March 1982, Milton, Massachusetts, USA
30 August 1982, USA
5 June 1967, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
9 August 1944, Sacramento, California, USA
5 November 1968, Daly City, California, USA
9 August 1985, Portland, Maine, USA
13 January 1977, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
August 28, 2015
The large, talented cast is clearly thriving in the freewheeling style.
August 27, 2015
Unfortunately, for as much dialogue as "Digging for Fire" has, the film doesn't go into much depth about Tim and Lee's true feelings about marriage and their lives.
August 27, 2015
While it has its charms, Swanberg is tilling soil here that has been churned since humanity began, and he doesn't come up with very much that's new.
August 29, 2015
It's a killer when 90 percent of your film consists of dozens of actors spouting reams of improvised dialogue that quickly fades into a din.
September 04, 2015
May not say anything revelatory, but the realization it imparts is no less valuable for it.
September 18, 2015
Strong performances drive thoughtful, mature marital drama.
August 27, 2015
Conversations drift and weave, as do the people having them. Narcissistic melancholy dukes it out with beer-and-pot-stoked merriment. There is longing. There is foolhardiness.
September 01, 2015
The looseness turns into haphazardness, and while the picture digs around a lot, it never really catches fire.
August 27, 2015
While you're watching it, "Digging for Fire" may feel slight or tentative, but its cumulative impact is entrancing. Few films about a marital rift make so much of what seems so little.
August 27, 2015
"Digging for Fire" is a pleasant escape - an attractively shot, gracefully edited and, finally, emotionally satisfying mystery about the nature of marriage itself.
September 11, 2015
The movie has been dedicated to Paul Mazursky, the great radiologist of American social interplay who died last year. But Swanberg is still murmuring where Mazursky could speechify, gesticulate, and shout, sometimes in the same sequence.
May 30, 2016
The size of that ensemble and Swanberg's particular way of sorta hazily drifting from one half-overheard conversation to the next gives the picture a Robert Altman vibe that's never really been present in his work before.