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2006 · comedy · drama

Diggers

Directed by Katherine Dieckmann1h 36m2006

In 1976, four working-class friends come of age in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers, as were their fathers and their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to face the changing times in both their personal lives and their neighborhood.

Our read: Diggers (2006) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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Neutral, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.

ElsewhereIMDb6.33kRT69%Metacritic66TMDB6.051
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How Diggers feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want a low-key 70s ensemble drama about friends and a vanishing way of life.”

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