In the spirit of “Stand by Me” and “Dead Poet’s Society”, Digger is a bittersweet, heartwarming story of a troubled boy sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. There he meets Billy, a physically frail but spiritually strong boy who introduces Digger to a world of hope and imagination.
Digger is the kind of movie that reveals a small collection of important secrets as if it were discovering a series of brightly coloured stones on the beach.
(John Lekich, Globe and Mail)
Joshua Jackson and Gabrielle Miller.
Leslie Nielsen, Olympia Dukakis and Adam Hahn-Byrd.
“Digger soars into the realm of the spiritual and sincere when it settles down and tells us Digger’s story. And besides, it’s nice to see Canada be Canada instead of a too-pretty imitation of the land next door.”
(Katherine Monk, Vancouver Sun)