Get Low

2010 | 102 minutes | Rated PG-13

Robert Duvall is a scruffy backwoods codger, object of fear and gossip in a neighboring town, who strikes a deal with smarmy undertaker Bill Murray to give himself a living funeral so he can eavesdrop on all the stories. He also needs to unburden himself of a deep, dark secret, periodically dangled before us in the form of a yellowing cameo of his former lady love. Based on the true story of Felix Breazeale, who gave himself a grand send-off in Oliver Springs, Tennessee, in 1938, this handsome period drama is the sort of quiet, homespun story that Duvall, who served as executive producer, has always loved. The creaky foreshadowing is a big problem, and the movie runs in place for most of its second half, though Duvall manages to pull it back on track with his climactic soliloquy, which sobers and silences the carnivalesque funeral party. Aaron Schneider directed; with Sissy Spacek, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney, and Bill Cobbs. By J.R. Jones

Official Site: www.sonyclassics.com/getlow
Director: Aaron Schneider
Producer: Dean Zanuck, David Gundlach, David Ginsberg, Harrison Zanuck, C. Mitchell, Joey Rappa, Robert Duvall, Rob Carliner, Oliver Simon, Daniel Baur, Alain Midzic, Blerim Destani, Dariusz Gasiorowski, Brad Park, Brandie Park, Konrad Wojterkowski, Scott Fischer, Don Mandrik, Chris Provenzano and Beth Crookham
Cast: Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney, Bill Cobbs, Scott Cooper, Lori Beth Edgeman and Linds Edwards