Movie Review: Get Low

We watched Get Low last night. What a fun, quirky movie! It is kind of dark and not super action packed, and the religious aspects were typical Hollywood fare but it was an entertaining movie regardless. The cast is full of major players: Robert Duvall (who is always good) as Felix Bush, Bill Murray as the owner of a failing funeral home, Sissy Spacek and on. The story revolves around Duvall's character who is a crazy backwoods hermit who has lived alone on his property for 40 years. The story takes places in the 1930's and everyone in town has a story to tell about the crazy man in the woods. He suddenly decides to host his own funeral party while he is still alive to give everyone a chance to tell their wild stories about him. As the movie progresses you find out that his real intent is to finally tell the story of why he lives back in the woods. You get some clues throughout but have to wait until the end to get the full story. Anyway, pretty fun movie!