2007 · comedy · drama · coming-of-age
Diggers
Directed by Katherine Dieckmann1h 36m2007
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 (2007) reads as a warm, measured, grounded comedy · drama · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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