
Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is a hermit who has no regard for anybody in the town or anyone who wants to get to know him. But one day, after a fellow old hermit has died and he hears people in the town telling stories about him, he decides that he needs to get these stories out in the public. He recruits Frank (Bill Murray), the local funeral home director, to host his own funeral. This way he can hear what everyone is saying about him, and get the truth to his past out in the... (Full plot summary below)
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Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is a hermit who has no regard for anybody in the town or anyone who wants to get to know him. But one day, after a fellow old hermit has died and he hears people in the town telling stories about him, he decides that he needs to get these stories out in the public. He recruits Frank (Bill Murray), the local funeral home director, to host his own funeral. This way he can hear what everyone is saying about him, and get the truth to his past out in the open. But will he be able to get anybody to come? And will he be able to reveal his secrets?
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| Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonFelix (Duvall) simply wants to host his own goodbye, maybe have a band, and the reasons why are the reasons Get Low is essential viewing. That, and the acting. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedResonating with warmth and sardonic wit and containing a majestic performance by Robert Duvall. |
| AV ClubNoel MurrayGet Low is meant to be funny, heartwarming, and wise, and it is, for the most part--but in an overly familiar way. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn Johanson[T]hough the parts may not come together as they should, there's something satisfying... about Get Low's individual parts, even separately... |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesThe 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. |
| www.susangranger.comSusan GrangerA slyly intriguing, powerful, upredictable fable, a uniquely American folktale. |
| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsA moving morality play about the steep price guilt is capable of exacting on a tortured soul consumed with overwhelming regret. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayIt's as soothing and pure as the sweetest water from the deepest well. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertCinematographer-turned-director Schneider lights the film like an old master, and sees the feral glory of his boondocks locations. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonIt's a piece of charming, low-key Americana... |