![]() Edith herself is alone on her estate raising her adventuresome son Robert (Archie Barnes) and weathering debilitating stomach issues. It is a feeling soon echoed by the self-trained Brown. After all, King Henry VIII once dug on the same site. Will the pretty, patronised Peggy stick by her reticent husband (Ben Chaplin), or let herself fall for Edith’s (fictional) dashing cousin, Rory (Flynn)? If you don’t give a toss, you’ll find the film’s second half extremely aggravating.In 1939, widowed landowner Edith Pretty ( Promising Young Woman’s Carey Mulligan, adding 20 years to her age) hired skilled excavator Basil Brown (Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes) to investigate centuries-old burial mounds on her property near the River Deben tidal estuary in Suffolk of eastern England. ![]() She was in fact a pioneer of modern settlement studies (better known by her later name of Margaret Guido) but her storyline doesn't reflect that. What? Who cares about Peggy? The answer, perhaps, lies in the fact that The Dig is based on a book by Peggy’s nephew, John Preston. Will this horrible snob sideline our working class hero? And what will happen to Peggy, (James), the archeologist who finds the first piece of gold? The latter wants to keep Brown away from the burial chamber. Instead, the focus shifts to tensions between Brown and the pompous Charles Phillips (Ken Stott), brought in by the Office of Public Works to oversee the dig. It seems for a moment as if the connection between Pretty and Brown will lead to romance. Brown unearths a ship, full of a sixth-century chieftain’s prized possessions, which delights Pretty’s precocious son, Robert (Archie Barnes uncannily sweet). New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĮdith’s hunch proves correct.
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