Diggstown

1992 "Where the pros meet the cons."
6.9| 1h38m| R| en| More Info
Released: 14 August 1992 Released
Producted By: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. "Honey" Roy Palmer is that man - although at 48, many say he is too old.

Genre

Drama, Comedy

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Director

Michael Ritchie

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Diggstown Audience Reviews

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
rod-ruger A perfect vehicle for wise guy James Woods, Bruce Dern, and Lou Gossett, and Oliver Platt. All deliver on the spot roles. Drama, humor, con men, boxing, surprises. Great lines from Woods..."I'll bet you $10 against five minutes with your mother...". Buy it, borrow it, watch it if you possibly can. Fun!Why ten lines of review? OK - Woods, conman, gets out of prison and seeks a scam. Finds it in Diggstown where hot-cheese Dern runs the show and is a small time boxing promoter. The bet is that Gossett can fight any ten local boxers in 24 hours and beat them all...$100,000. Lot's going on in this intelligent show. But, it's not so subtle that our majority moron movie watchers won't get it. Watch it twice if you need to. I did, and it was even better the second time.
johnbgardner75 Please excuse the rating, I'm actually watching it for the first time as I type.The reason for the posting is the unusual circumstances regarding how I learned of this movie - It was at least a year and perhaps several before it was released in 1992.I was in Dallas, TX at the Northpark Mall West 1 & 2, and for the life of me, I thought it was the opening of "Batman" I remember seeing. The reason this is odd is that I had heard "Diggstown" was held back quite a while between shooting and release, but batman was released in 1989 and Diggstown was released in 1992. Was it held back 3 years? In any case, while wrapped around the theater waiting for our movie, a production representative appeared and offered us the opportunity to be in a pre-release group for the movie Diggstown. We declined (fools)! It is just a bit of minuscule trivia that it apparently took years for the movie to be released and some 15+ years later I am finally watching it for the first time. Irrelevant, but I think, interesting for a movie that has been underrated from before its beginning.Damage
just_tere This movie is a gem, and I cannot believe, as some others have said, that MORE people haven't seen it. We found it by accident on Starz! and highly recommend you spend the time with it.While people may tell you it's about boxing, it really isn't. It's about a con. There's enough surprises in the movie to make your jaw drop at times. I know mine did.Truly a movie that should be seen by more people. The characters and the actors that played them were just wonderful. I can only imagine that the fun these people had on the set was something they will all remember all their lives.
mjw2305 One night, years ago now, I stumbled across this movie on Sky (known as Midnight Sting in the UK) With a fine cast including James Woods, Bruce Dern, Heather Graham and Oliver Platt, I had stumbled onto a really good movie.James Woods is a con man who with the help of his partner (Oliver Platt) sets up a fight between his age old friend Honey Roy Palmer, an ageing but very accomplished boxer and any 10 Diggstown men (a small out of the way boxing loving town, controlled by Bruce Dern) The con is on, Woods and Dern set the wheels in motion on this exhibition of boxing, and as the stakes get higher you will find yourself engaged by the tension of the event. Who is hustling who? And why? I am amazed at how few people seem to have seen this movie. So if you fancy a film, with a some good laughs, a clever story, a fine cast and a cracking ending. Then give it a try, yes there are better films, but there are far more that are worse.8/10 Go and rent yourself a copy