Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Bacon, Mary Stuart Masterson

Harriet's alcoholic mother owns a hotel, she and her promiscuous sister Gwen live there. Harriet is a lonely child, she doesn't like her life, or her world and keeps looking for an escape to a better ...( read more  read more... )one, her plans include digging to china and leaving on a UFO. One day a car breaks down near the hotel and the couple inside takes a room. The couple is Ricky a mentally retarded man, and his sick mother Leah. Ricky's mother is dying of cancer and they were on their way to a home so that he would be taken care of after she is gone. Harriet and Ricky become friends over their common interest in a different life. Their bond and their desire for escape grows stronger after Harriet's mother dies, as he stands by her during her grief she try's to do the same in helping him deal with the fact that he is different and will soon be very alone. They are each others best and only friends and as they cling on to each other as for dear life, Gwen who doesn't understand their relationship tries to keep them apart.

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PG, 103 min.

Directed by: Timothy Hutton

Release Date: September 11, 1998

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DVD Release Date: July 10, 2001

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  • March 17, 2008
    A great movie!
  • October 3, 2008
    Digging to China is the movie equivalent to being gang raped by a bunch of downs syndrome teenagers. They're too retarded to even fucking rape you right. That said this movie has countless PRICELESS scenes with Kevin Bacon playing the part of a retarded person POORLY. I can't ...( read more)emphasize that enough. The movie is worth that alone. Watch this when you're not feel particularly attentive and fast forward through - just stopping on the particularly tardy Kevin Bacon moments.
  • September 19, 2008
    Ooooh, two of my favorite actors: Mary Stuart Masterson and Kevin Bacon.

    Great movie. Kinda like What's Eating Gilbert Grape....
  • January 3, 2008
    great movie, wow, Kevin Bacon does amazing acting in this movie. Timothy Hutton directed this movie, how kool is that!!
  • October 22, 2007
    Very good but sad movie
  • October 17, 2007
    una historia amorosa y sentimental.
  • September 13, 2007
    looks good, hope it is.

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  • margueritec1973
    May 27, 2008
    I was touched by the friendship/relationship that formed between Harriet & Ricky, especially considering the movie was set in the 1960's. Really wasn't a set plot, just kind of took me through the short friendship/relationship be twen the two carachters
  • fitfunnfab
    February 24, 2007
    Another one of Kevins best! :)

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