![]() Brown, self-taught and self-effacing, first rejects the position because of the amount of money offered - the same small fee that the Ipswich Museum had paid him. ![]() With a lifelong interest in archeology, widow Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) hires local Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. It also addresses both the purist of and the validity of credit. Based on the 2007 novel by John Preston and the true story of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo (outside of Woodbridge, in Suffolk, England), the film explores the personalities involved with the undertaking and the quest for the truth. Perhaps it is odd to explain a film as methodically heartfelt, but that best describes The Dig.
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