Digging for Fire (2015)

Directed by

Joe Swanberg

Genre

drama film, comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

R

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 160 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married couple find a gun and a bone in the backyard of a house they are housesitting. The discovery sets off a series of personal explorations and conversations over a weekend.

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What happens

Digging for Fire is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Joe Swanberg and co-written by Swanberg and Jake Johnson. It stars an ensemble cast led by Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, Orlando Bloom and Mike Birbiglia. Johnson and DeWitt play a married couple who find a gun and a bone in the backyard of a house they are staying in. The film's plot was inspired by a similar incident in which Johnson discovered a gun and a bone in his backyard. Instead of a traditional script, he and Swanberg wrote an outline that summarized the plot but included no dialogue. They cast the film mainly by contacting their friends and other actors who they knew had enjoyed their previous work. It was filmed over 15 days in Los Angeles County, California. Swanberg dedicated the film to filmmaker Paul Mazursky. Digging for Fire premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2015. It was released in theaters on August 21, 2015, by The Orchard and on video on demand on August 25, 2015. The film was generally well received by critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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