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Jan 29, 2021 · Edith Pretty ( Carey Mulligan ), a widowed woman living on a huge estate with her small son Robert ( Archie Barnes ), hires Basil away from the Ipswich Museum to dig up the mounds on her property. Basil doesn't have high hopes.
Featuring beautifully matched performances from Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan set against gorgeously filmed English countryside, The Dig yields period drama treasures. Read Critics Reviews ...
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- Simon Stone
- PG-13
- Carey Mulligan
- Scarlett Marlowe - as Above, So Below
- Benjamin Gates - National Treasure
- Basil Brown - The Dig
- Lara Croft - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
- Dr. Daniel Jackson - Stargate
- Evelyn Carnahan - The Mummy
- Percy Fawcett - The Lost City of Z
- Lankester Merrin - The Exorcist
- Elizabeth Shaw - Prometheus
- Indiana Jones - Raiders of The Lost Ark
In John Erick Dowdle's 2014 horror escapade, As Above, So Below, Welsh actress Perdita Weeks gives a memorable turn as Scarlett Marlowe, an archaeology scholar who must put her theory into practice when exploring the horrific catacombs beneath Paris. Patterned after the seven layers of Hell, the labyrinthine catacombs are said to hold the famous re...
In the big-budget National Treasureseries, Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) is a historian and archaeological hunter on a sprawling quest to locate the Templar Treasure. RELATED: 10 Best/Worst Nicolas Cage Movie Hairstyles, Ranked Upon receiving clues from his grandfather (Christopher Plummer), Ben assembles a team to go on a cross-country sc...
Oscar-winner Ralph Fiennes brings dignity, grace, and elegance to the role of Basil Brown, an autodidactic English archaeologist working to exhume the remains of the ancient Sutton Hoo gravesite in The Dig. Set in Suffolk, England, in 1939, Brown is hired by Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan), a widow and owner of the Sutton Hoo grounds to dig up the cr...
Although based on a fictional video game character, Angelina Jolie's portrayal of Lara Croft in theTomb Raiderfilms remain iconic as any 21st-century cinematic archaeologist. RELATED: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider & 9 Other Movies Turning 20 In 2021 In addition to making massive amounts of money and inspiring a reboot starring Alicia Vikander, Jolie is p...
Roland Emmerich's sci-fi action-adventure, Stargatecombines the futuristic cosmos with ancient Egypt in a manner never before seen. The story picks up when a mysterious teleportation pod is excavated in Egypt. Upon discovery, military commander Col. Jack O'Neill (Kurt Russell) and archaeologist Daniel Jackson (James Spader) agree to enter the pod a...
While American adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) gets all the shine, it's the brilliant but bumbling Egyptologist Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz) that uses her archaeological acumen to survive The Mummy. RELATED: 10 Incredibly Expensive Box Office Bombs The rollicking adventure series redefines the mythic lore of the 1930s Mummyhorror movie...
James Gray's The Lost City of Z tells the real-life story of famed British explorer and surveyor, Percy Fawcett(Charlie Hunnam), who set out to discover an enriched hidden jungle metropolis in 1920s South America. Faced with stifling weather, cannibalistic natives, deadly mosquitos, false information, crew infighting, and the like, Fawcett overcome...
Although his actions might make him one of the worst cinematic archaeologists, there is no way to omit The Exorcist's Father Lankester Merrin (Max Von Sydow) from the list. RELATED: 10 Horror Movies To Watch If You Love The Exorcist William Friedkin's horror masterpiece begins with Merrin traveling to Iraq to participate in an archaeological dig. U...
If Roland Emmerich was the first to blend ancient Egypt with intergalactic space travel, then Ridley Scott took the idea to new heights with his 2012 film Prometheus, a de facto sequel to his 1979 masterpiece, Alien. Noomi Rapace plays Dr. Elizabeth Shaw in the film, a complicated archaeologist who believes in science and religion. In the year 2089...
Without a doubt, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is the single greatest cinematic archaeologist of all time. Through four films and counting, Indiana has endured unparalleled danger en route to discovering the Lost Ark of the Covenant, The Temple of Doom, The Holy Grail, and the Crystal Skull. In 2022, Jones will set off another perilous quest. With ...
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Jan 13, 2021 · At the center of this unhurried yet engaging project are two meticulously calibrated performances from Carey Mulligan (playing the 56-year-old Pretty) and Ralph Fiennes as amateur archaeologist ...
Jan 29, 2021 · The Dig: Directed by Simon Stone. With Ralph Fiennes, Stephen Worrall, Danny Webb, Carey Mulligan. An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Simon Stone
- 2021-01-29
Jan 13, 2021 · The film starring Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes tells the story of the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon burial site at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk set against the backdrop of the Second World War. It was in Suffolk - not Egypt, Turkey or Greece - that one of the most significant archeological discoveries of all time took place.
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The Dig is a 2021 British drama film directed by Simon Stone, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston, which reimagines the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England.
