Get Low

July. 30,2010      PG-13
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A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.

Bill Murray as  Frank Quinn
Sissy Spacek as  Mattie Darrow
Robert Duvall as  Felix Bush
Lucas Black as  Buddy
Bill Cobbs as  Rev. Charlie Jackson
Gerald McRaney as  Rev. Gus Horton
Scott Cooper as  Carl
Chandler Riggs as  Tom
Lori Beth Sikes as  Kathryn
Linds Edwards as  WKNG Announcer

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Reviews

SnoReptilePlenty
2010/07/30

Memorable, crazy movie

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Rio Hayward
2010/07/31

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Mathilde the Guild
2010/08/01

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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Geraldine
2010/08/02

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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tavm
2010/08/03

After years of only partially knowing about this film, I finally decided to order it from Netflix just recently. My mom ended up watching it with me. She thought it was a little depressing. Well, it sorta is, but it also was a little amusing in spots. I mean, Robert Duvall is fine as the leading character who normally just lives by himself and tries to not bother anyone but there are tales about him that he doesn't confirm or deny. Bill Murray is a funeral director who takes Duvall's request for a funeral party so he can be talked about while he's alive. Sissy Spacek is a woman Duvall once knew. There's also nice parts for Lucas Black and Bill Cobbs. In summary, Get Low is quite a worthy drama for those patient enough for a low-key, mostly non-confrontational film.

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Mojochi
2010/08/04

I hadn't even heard of this film, but basically, anytime I see Robert Duvall show up in a film , I choose to give him a chance, because he's almost certainly got something interesting to deliver. So, for him to surface in something, and then for Bill Murray and the wonderful Sissy Spacek to be attached to it as well, it had to be worth my time. So it was. In reference to my title summary, Murray is that charm the film offers. The story & the ensemble cast was what engaged, Duvall himself managed to give us something touching yet again, & every single cast member gives wonderful performances. As period pieces go, it delivers on many levels. It is what an independent film should aspire to be

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Krists .
2010/08/05

Art direction, photography and costumes are close to excellent. The cast is perfect and actors do incredible job. Now the "movie". It's terrible. For all those aspiring graduates you absolutely have to analyze this "piece of art" it's a perfect example of how to not edit the movie. I don't know, maybe they lost some footage one the way, or there was nobody to supervise the investment, or they where out of time to review the golden, who cares. The point is that it's out there to be amaze the audience. If you like great cast movies you have to see this one! Because it is truly amazing how someone can throw a Disney party with couple of millions and super hi-tech cameras!

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Bob Pr.
2010/08/06

Robert Duvall is one of my all-time favorite actors and here he gives a worthy performance as a person suffering guilt, a self-imposed 40 year social exile of being a hermit, and a search for redemption (shades of his "The Apostle" and "Tender Mercies") -- themes he apparently treasures.In this story, word of the death of an acquaintance prompts elderly Felix (Duvall) to think of his own passing and make plans for it. He's been a hermit for 40 years (for reasons revealed at the end of the film) and such a thoroughly cantankerous old codger that the townspeople trade stories and speculate about him.Felix visits the local undertaker (Bill Murray), an oleaginous salesman who'll do anything to make a buck. Felix wants his funeral service before he dies and the undertaker arranges it. The acting of Duvall and Murray make the film come alive and worthwhile. Any other competent actors would have made it a dud.Set in Georgia in the early 1930s (soon after the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression), those world events seem to have no effect on these people. Never mind, the joy of the movie is seeing these two actors display their wares.

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