Diggstown
Diggstown (known as Midnight Sting in the UK), is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Steven McKay, based on the 1978 novel The Diggstown Ringers by Leonard Wise. It stars James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Heather Graham, Oliver Platt and Randall "Tex" Cobb.
Plot
Gabriel Caine (James Woods), a con man, is released from prison in Winfield, Georgia and immediately gets to work on his next scam. Caine and his partner, Daniel Patrick O'Shannon "Fitz" Fitzpatrick (Oliver Platt), travel to a small town not far from the prison: Diggstown, a city obsessed with boxing.
More details
author | Steven McKay |
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director | Michael Ritchie |
editor | Don Zimmerman |
events | gambling |
genre | comedy-drama |
keywords | bank account best man box boxer brain damage claim con man confidence trick drug expect hear james caviezel knock out laxative loan shark murder obsess rid roger hewlett small town submission take advantage throw in the towel understand ymca |
musicBy | James Newton Howard |
producer | Robert Schaffel |
productionCompany | Eclectic Films |
publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |