Movie Review – Diggers

Diggers (2006) – It’s the 1970s on Long Island.  For generations men have gone out into the waters near shore to search for clams.  But a corporation is intruding on the shallows where the diggers ply their trade.  Four childhood friends try to figure out what they’re going to do if they can’t do what their fathers and grandfathers have done for decades.

Great cast (Paul Rudd, Maura Tierney, Ken Marino, and Ron Eldard) in an independent film that was written by Marino.  Directed by Katherine Dieckman, a music video director who has done several with R.E.M.  She does a pretty good job of staying out of the way of the story.  Rudd and Tierney plays siblings who have to figure out being adults when their dad dies.

The movie never tries to be more than it is.  That allows it to work very well.  A nice little story about characters you can actually understand and care about.  It’s a classic coming of age movie and I doubt you’ll be surprised by much of anything.  Except how much you enjoyed it.

Rating – **** Recommended.