A packed cast and seemingly little plot I expected that 'Digging for Fire' was going to be a high end whack at 'mumblecore' but it seems too highly thought out for that. The story is actually surprisingly complicated, though at the same time arguably not much happens. A couple with a young son (Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt, PE teacher and Yoga instructor respectively) are staying at a nice, presumably Topanga Canyon home of one of the latter's clients who is in Hungry filming a movie. This is with the home owners knowledge, it was arranged as a kind of treat, a mini-vacation. Anyway Jake Johnson is poking about on the land, finds a rusted pistol and what looks like a human bone. The police are seemingly uninterested but Jake becomes kind of obssesed, so when Rosemarie takes their three year old to her parents so she can have a girls night out, Jake invites some of his friends over for beer, barbeque and digging.
Despite the set up of the mystery the couple stumbles upon this film isn't really about that, it's about their relationship, a mixture of the rocky and the strong. This movie goes in some unexpected directions, I liked it's looseness, I liked how unconventional this is, it's hard to think of something else that is really like this movie, and of course the cast is amazing. Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, Orlando Bloom, Sam Elliott, Judith Light, Ron Livingston, Melanie Lynskey, Jenny Slate, though some appear only for a scene or two. So if your good with something lose and in the mood for something different, I really enjoyed both how unusual and how oddly laid back this movie is. **1/2
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