The Dig

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The Dig

PG-13

2021

1h 52m

Drama

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An excavator and his team discover a wooden ship from the Dark Ages while digging up a burial ground on a woman's estate.

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Critics Consensus

Featuring beautifully matched performances from Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan set against gorgeously filmed English countryside, The Dig yields period drama treasures.

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Audience Says

Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan tap the tear ducts with this great-looking historical romance -- it's slow, but it'll make you feel like you've been to the British countryside before World War II.

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Wenlei Ma

News.com.au

02/28/2021

3/5

The elegance in The Dig lies in what it says about the continuity of life rather than the finality of death.

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Deborah Ross

The Spectator

02/03/2021

It's remarkably moving. By Jupiter, I even cried by the end.

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

01/31/2021

3/5

This bittersweet tale of the unearthing of the Sutton Hoo treasures on the eve of the second world war has gentle charm to spare.

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Surya Komal

Just for Movie Freaks

Aug 30

3.25/5

The Dig tells a compelling story of the individuals involved during the excavation and portrays their emotions and struggles as beautifully as possible.

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Geoffrey Macnab

iNews.co.uk

Jan 16

3/5

At its best, The Dig transcends the clichés of typical British costume drama and lays bare the feelings that its protagonists are all trying so hard to hide.

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Daryl MacDonald

InSession Film

04/26/2024

C

The superb acting and gorgeous cinematography, however, isn’t enough to stop The Dig from getting a little side-tracked and bogged down in unimportant side plots and characters who don’t add much to the story.

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Sean R.

@ZeroXero Oct 20

I like the movie. The storyline was good and subplots were good as well. Ralph Fiennes was good in it as usual

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AJ T

Aug 18

I found the story moving and consequential. The acting was superb. Mulligen, Fiennes and James were outstanding. If you have visited the British Museum this movie/story will resonate and leave you searching for more details. It was an inspiring story

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Esra Y

Jul 14

British period drama well done.

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Mike H.

@mikehoffey Jun 25

Bored me to death. The story had no legs so at the halfway point so a bunch of other people had to show up to carry it to the finish. The lead characters were good but the storyline and a poor representation of a miracle find in the ground - you could hardly make out the outline of a historical boat - was lame. The beautiful countryside moved it up one more star for me.

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Leaburn O

Jun 1

Fiennes and Mulligan are both absolutely excellent here but the supporting cast are more oafish with their acting and detract from what could have been a more sincere plot. All was going well until the director fancied he hadn’t enough material for a feature length film and suddenly introduced a whole new cast around the halfway point. So we get strange romance subplots to distract us from the main storyline and they felt shoehorned in. The child actor was kind of bad too unfortunately. There were some good elements here but it doesn’t quite hit the heights. Watched on Netflix.

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Robert B

May 29

Excellent drama for so many reasons. Just watch and enjoy.

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Synopsis

An excavator and his team discover a wooden ship from the Dark Ages while digging up a burial ground on a woman's estate.

Director: Simon Stone
Producer: Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Murray Ferguson, Gabrielle Tana, Ellie Wood
Screenwriter: Moira Buffini
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Netflix, Magnolia Mae Films, Clerkenwell Films
Rating: PG-13 (Partial Nudity|Brief Sensuality)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 15, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 29, 2021
Runtime: 1h 52m

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