Content:ĭominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements: MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for THE DIG. Also, some biographical facts have been changed to make the movie more dramatic. However, the movie’s positive content is marred by foul language and immoral, occult and homosexual behavior and content. It contains a few biblical references and celebrates motherhood, the preservation of history and British patriotism during the onset of World War II. THE DIG has a light Christian, moral worldview. On Netflix, THE DIG is a moving, superbly acted, immaculately produced drama about Britain’s greatest archaeological find to date. Meanwhile, Edith, who has a cute young son, finds out she has a heart condition that could be fatal.

However, as World War II approaches, Basil gets pushed to the side when national experts from the British Museum arrive. Basil makes an incredible discovery when he uncovers an artifact-laden, royal burial ship from the Sixth Century. Basil is hired by a wealthy, widowed landowner, Edith Pretty, to excavate the apparent funeral mounds on her large estate. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatizes three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure.Set in 1939, THE DIG focuses on Basil Brown, an amateur archaeologist who works for Ipswich Museum on England’s eastern coast. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Pretty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. 'An enthralling story of love and loss' Robert Harris A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James.

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