Get Low

2009
PG-13
1h 43m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

24K

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Bill Murray and Robert Duvall in Get Low (2009)

Equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend Get Low is about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.

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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 a... Read allA 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.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.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

24K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 28 nominations

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Get Low: Normally, People Don't Wear Shoes In A Casket

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Storyline

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Trivia
The story is partly derived from the funeral party thrown by Felix Bushaloo Breazeale for himself, in Cave Creek, Tennessee, in 1938.

Goofs
When Frank and Buddy are getting a photograph made of Felix, right before the camera shutter is tripped, the photographer bumps the view camera and it becomes aimed in a slightly different direction. The photographer fails to re-frame the shot which would never happen while using a view camera.

Quotes
Felix Bush: I built my own jail and put myself in it. And I stayed in it for 40 goddamn years! No wife. No kids, no friends, no nothing. No grandchildren. I wouldn't even know how to hold a baby. You hear me? Forty years. Now, that's not enough?
Rev. Charlie Jackson: You know it's not.

Connections
Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Kick-Ass/Death at a Funeral/The Joneses (2010)

Soundtracks
I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover
Written by Mort Dixon & Harry M. Woods (as Harry Woods)
Performed by Bix Beiderbecke
Courtesy of Bluebird/Novus/RCA Victor and the RCA/Jive Label Group, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

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Featured review

9/10

Go see it!

This is what movies are about:

It's a compelling story, flawless acting with spot-on casting choices, deftly directed, and with camera work supports the story with warm tones. I don't know of one person who has seen this and doesn't rave. The Oscar race begins here. It's wonderful to be rapt in a film that doesn't need explosions, chases or CGI to make the film work.

Every person involved in the making of this film is an artisan. If your a budding filmmaker, class is in session - a must see.

Duval and Spacek are in their prime - there's also a lesson here that youth and beauty are only skin deep... and talent grows with age.