Digging for Fire

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Digging for Fire

R

2015

1h 23m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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A house sitter (Jake Johnson) becomes an amateur sleuth after finding a bone and a gun on the property.

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Critics Consensus

Digging for Fire finds director/co-writer Joe Swanberg working from a familiar palette, but in ways that suggest he's taking new and exciting strides as a filmmaker.

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

05/30/2016

The size of that ensemble and Swanberg's particular way of sorta hazily drifting from one half-overheard conversation to the next gives the picture a Robert Altman vibe that's never really been present in his work before.

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Wesley Morris

Grantland

09/11/2015

The movie has been dedicated to Paul Mazursky, the great radiologist of American social interplay who died last year. But Swanberg is still murmuring where Mazursky could speechify, gesticulate, and shout, sometimes in the same sequence.

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Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

08/27/2015

3/4

Conversations drift and weave, as do the people having them. Narcissistic melancholy dukes it out with beer-and-pot-stoked merriment. There is longing. There is foolhardiness.

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

04/07/2024

2/5

Either it's fresh and interesting enough to keep you guessing or it's maddeningly lost and too unstructured for not really coming to a conclusion or making a point in the end.

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Leo Brady

AMovieGuy.com

01/31/2021

2.5/4

Digging for Fire is Swanberg's best film to date. I enjoyed finding what's buried beneath his style.

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Filipe Freitas

Always Good Movies

11/02/2020

2/5

The frivolous blend of ludicrous mystery and tepid romance offered in Digging For Fire got me quickly bored.

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Downriver R

@Downriver Feb 18

With the amount of absolutely outstanding A list actors that are in this that I love watching [Sam Rockwell Sam Elliot] not even them could save this horrible written film. It's not the acting that makes this movie suck. I say even though great actors are in it I'd just go ahead and pass on this one. Felt like i was watching grass grow. Boring/ super slow/ no buildup/ doesn't get your attention at any point. So the main actor in this the funny guy from tag I forget his name. He just isn't very believable in this. Maybe they should of picked somebody different for the lead actor. And maybe if they change directors this could of been decent.

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Tim M

09/19/2022

Why is this listed as a Thriller? It's a snooze fest, nothing thrilling about it whatsoever

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Aaron S

09/13/2022

A slight returning to the well for director Joe Swanberg in that this movie does a very similar thing to his movie Drinking Buddies. It addresses the subtle cracks in relationships that continue to expand over time. Unfortunately, by comparison Digging for Fire feels mundane and almost useless. It has a great ensemble cast but they have nothing to do and certainly very little that is interesting to say. It feels pretty manufactured despite its core messages being fairly resounding.

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05/30/2021

I liked the vibe and the cast, but it's not that cohesive of a movie and certainly not a "mystery/thriller" as it is listed here. It's more of a light indie comedy/drama.

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02/02/2021

Not sure why this scored so low on Rotten Tomatoes... feel like i saw a different movie to whoever scored it low? It's a great indie, was unpredictable, some funny bits, felt very real and honest. It's not trying to be anything. An intriguing story about a certain point in your life when you're young parents and trying to figure out your life - which I'm leading up to now, so maybe that's why i related and got so much from it. In a nut shell: About relationships yet about individuals; Fun yet serious; Comedic yet emotional; Adventurous yet down to earth.

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steve d

06/09/2020

Nothing interesting going on and the entire cast has nothing to do. A completely forgettable film.

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Synopsis

A house sitter (Jake Johnson) becomes an amateur sleuth after finding a bone and a gun on the property.

Director: Joe Swanberg
Producer: Joe Swanberg, Jake Johnson, Alicia Van Couvering
Screenwriter: Joe Swanberg, Jake Johnson
Distributor: The Orchard
Production Co: Garrett Motion Pictures
Rating: R (Drug Use|Brief Graphic Nudity|Language|Some Sexual References)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 21, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $119.4K
Runtime: 1h 23m

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