Digging for Fire

2015
5.8| 1h23m| R| en| More Info
Released: 21 August 2015 Released
Producted By: Lucky Coffee Productions
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Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks
Cleveronix A different way of telling a story
heller kopf The title is perfect for the film. It instantly makes your mind go to asking questions like 'who's digging?', 'will they get what they are digging for?' It starts off slow, goes on slow and ends... If you were looking for action or adventure try googling something with Tom Cruiseo r Will Smith in them. This film intends to send you on a self-examination journey at least that's what happened to me. Have I ever been distracted? Have I ever felt the need of changing what I had for something different? Have there ever been sufficient doubt whether I was going in the right direction?.. Have you? The main characters are a husband and a wife, they have an adorable little kid and seem to be good parents. They are house sitting for her mother and as they walk around the area they find something. It interests Tim (the husband) a lot but they decide to leave it and not dig around finding more. And will he when Lee (the wife) does to visit her mother? As the film goes on viewers realise they have different understanding of what education is best for their son, they are not happy with where they live, they are short on money, probably yet feel like they haven't had enough partying before things got so serious and now more is expected of them. But how do we know when we are ready?
Argemaluco I generally like the "mumblecore" movement, as well as the evolution it has followed till its current state, a bit more commercial and accessible for general audiences. Yes, they still deal with "the problems of pretty people", but what I appreciate from them is the emotional intensity of the stories and the realism of dialogs which somehow capture big truths about human experience in contemporary world... generally accompanied by indie music and a very natural but artistically satisfactory cinematography. Having said all that, I have to admit that the film Digging for Fire ended up being a big disappointment. To start with, the cast of Digging for Fire includes various of my favorite actors: Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Brie Larson, Anna Kendrick, Sam Rockwell, Melanie Lynskey and Jane Adams... but they are all absolutely wasted in their roles. The leading couple (played by Johnson and DeWitt) obviously has the most significant dramatic arc, and it still feels like a secondary sub-plot which might have worked better as the support of a more interesting or personal story. The cliché of the married couple in trouble who needs to experiment a crisis to get reconciled or dissolved has been covered in many other films (even from the same movement); in this movie, it seems a hollow essay in the road to something more substantial... a "workshop" in which the main themes, the rhythm of the tale and an ending which ties the loose ends aren't established yet. And I'm not asking for a moral or an epic and devastating "message" about the difficulty of modern romance; just an ending which doesn't feel like an interruption because the hard disk of the camera was filled. In conclusion, Digging for Fire suggests the construction of a bigger narrative, but it can't be more than that... fragments of a character study without any structure in order to bring them context and relevance.
SnoopyStyle Tim (Jake Johnson), his wife Lee (Rosemarie DeWitt) and son spend some time in her client's hillside home. Tim finds a gun in the yard but the cops are uninterested. Lee and her son visit her parents while Tim is suppose to finish his work. Instead of work, his friends Phil (Mike Birbiglia), Ray (Sam Rockwell) and others come to hang out. The guys start digging up where Tim found the gun and they find a bone. They are joined by others to do drugs. Tim and Max (Brie Larson) find a shoe and they continue the dig the next day finding even more bones. Ben (Orlando Bloom) rescues Lee from a drunk at a bar.Director Joe Swanberg continues to make his improvisational indies. The idea of digging and discovery does infuse the movie with an obsessive quality. It works well to keep the intensity up. It does mean that Lee has the lesser half of the movie. In fact, the movie would work better pointing the focus at Tim. There are lots of ways the dig could go. The cops could actually come. The owner could come home early. However Swanberg seems more interested in the couple's relationship.
cece martin I don't understand the work of Joe Swamberg. Every time I give it a try because I'm a bit intrigued, but every time I am disappointed. This one has even come to make me laugh out of boredom and I kept raising my eyebrows at every shot or dialog. I don't understand his obsession with white, hip adults in hip environments. A beautiful house in Cali, adults doing coke, getting naked in pools... how indie... (sarcasm). The stories could be interesting or touching or alternative or intriguing but they are none of that. They feel like a failed attempt, every time. I would be interested in the conflict of an adult not really good at dealing with the responsibilities that come with a family lifestyle and being torn between the melancholia of younger days, I honestly would. But not translated in just a bunch of guys hanging out around a pool. I mean, not the way it is filmed here. It needs a bit more depth, something that would resonnate with a feeling we all go through. But no, it's not working at all. Joe Swamberg needs to move on to another subject. Can he see further than his own environment? He has the tools, but doesn't seem to want to.