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Overlooked Film of Sport: Diggstown
Posted Dec. 10, 2007 at 6:03 pm by Mike Seely
My list of all-time fave sports films goes something like this: Bull Durham, Hoosiers, Breaking Away, The Bad News Bears, Raging Bull, Happy Gilmore, Rocky, Major League, Seabiscuit, The Natural, Chariots of Fire, Friday Night Lights, Wildcats, Eight Men Out, Mr. 3000 (no, really — Bernie Mac's performance is sublime), Tin Cup (flawed, yet ultimately satisfying), The Waterboy, Field of Dreams, Kingpin, The Kid From Left Field, Days of Thunder, Talladega Nights, Six Pack, and Blades of Glory. The final few could be DQ'd, depending on the viability of NASCAR and ice-skating as sports. Also, I'm not counting documentaries here, otherwise Hoop Dreams and A League of Ordinary Gentlemen would be way high on this list. I also have a soft spot for The Cutting Edge, a movie that probably ruined D.B. Sweeney's career.
Then comes perhaps the most perennially overlooked sports film of them all: Diggstown, starring James Woods, Bruce Dern, Lou Gossett, Oliver Platt, and an apple-cheeked Heather Graham as a crew of small-town Georgians entwined in a high-stakes boxing hustle. While the film is a bit too brisk and formulaic, Graham can't act, and Woods, as always, is a love-him-or-hate-him proposition, I'll be damned if the sum of its parts don't end up charming the gloves off of you. I'm not the only one who feels this way.
In my haste to put Wednesday's paper out, I'm sure I'm inadvertently leaving some gems off this list. Tell me what they are.
Topics: Boxing
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