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"No one can drift forever"

It's September 1976 on the south shore of Long Island with the upcoming Ford-Carter presidential election, but local clam diggers are more worried about losing their already-fragile trade to an encroaching corporation. Like his father and grandfather before him, Hunt (Paul Rudd) is a digger, but with a restless, imaginative side exemplified by the black-and-white Polaroids he takes. Hunt's lifelong buddies and fellow diggers include Frankie Lozo (Ken Marino), a brash father struggling to support five kids and his longsuffering but spunky wife, Julie (Sarah Paulson); laid-back local ladies' man Jack (Ron Eldard); and philosophy-spouting pot dealer Cons (Josh Hamilton). A sudden death propels the four best friends to look at their lives, as it does for Hunt's recently divorced older sister Gina (Maura Tierney), who works as a waitress at the local diner. Meanwhile, Hunt falls for a hip young woman visiting from Manhattan, Zoe (Lauren Ambrose), who wonders why his artistic impulses don't propel him out of a dead-end town.

Director:

Katherine Dieckmann [1],

Starring:

Josh Hamilton [6], Paul Rudd [31], Lauren Ambrose [35], Ken Marino [4], Maura Tierney [18], Ron Eldard [11],

Screen Formats:

Widescreen 1.78:1

Language and Sound:

English Dolby Digital Stereo

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