Digging for Fire (2015) (original) (raw)
Young married couple Tim and Lee have planted the seeds of a family in their East L.A. duplex. Three years after the birth of their son, they�re still adjusting to the joy and pain of life with kid, navigating potty talk at the dinner table, disagreeing over preschools, and putting off doing their taxes. For a change of pace, they decide to house-sit for one of Lee�s Westside yoga clients. Once there, Tim discovers something suspicious in the yard that gets the wheels in his head turning, and Lee, worried that he will become obsessed with digging deeper, decides to drop their toddler off with ...(more)
Young married couple Tim and Lee have planted the seeds of a family in their East L.A. duplex. Three years after the birth of their son, they�re still adjusting to the joy and pain of life with kid, navigating potty talk at the dinner table, disagreeing over preschools, and putting off doing their taxes. For a change of pace, they decide to house-sit for one of Lee�s Westside yoga clients. Once there, Tim discovers something suspicious in the yard that gets the wheels in his head turning, and Lee, worried that he will become obsessed with digging deeper, decides to drop their toddler off with her mother for a much-needed night out on the town. Sans-wife, Tim invites his buddies over, and a �boys-will-be-boys� scenario ensues, full of drinking, awkward joint-passing, and perhaps getting a bit too close to a girl who isn�t the mother of his child. (less)
Director: Joe Swanberg
Writers: Joe Swanberg, Jake Johnson
Starring: Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Orlando Bloom, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick
Producers: Jake Johnson, Joe Swanberg, Alicia Van Couvering
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Review by Brian Orndorf, August 27, 2015
8 / 10
Writer/director Joe Swanberg believes in the healing powers of conversation. He�s built a career with semi-improvised features that highlight loquacious characters enduring personal crises, with recent efforts �Happy Christmas� and �Drinking Buddies� helping the helmer to prominence, refining his skill with bigger, brighter casts and a creative maturation that gives Swanberg plenty of grass to mow when it comes to the vast field of thirtysomething discontent. �Digging for Fire� assembles a Justice League of famous faces to help sell a tale of physical and emotional discovery, but familiar face ...read more...
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