Diggstown
Diggstown (known as Midnight Sting in the UK and Ireland), 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
After being released from prison in Winfield, Georgia, con man Gabriel Caine gets to work on his next scam. Caine and his partner, Daniel Patrick O'Shannon "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, travel to a small town near 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 | amyl nitrate best man box boxer brain damage claim con man confidence trick drug expect hear knock out laxative loan shark murder obsess small town submission throw in the towel ymca |
| musicBy | James Newton Howard |
| producer | Robert Schaffel |
| productionCompany | Eclectic Films |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |