Get Low

Get Low is the best backwoods hermit movie of 2010. The title is a colloquialism for getting down to business, which to loner and reported loon Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) means throwing himself a funeral party while he is still alive and inviting all the locals to tells stories they have heard of his mysterious, dark past and buy raffle tickets to win his beloved, sprawling rural acreage. Bush has a hidden agenda up his flannel plaid sleeve after 40 years of seclusion in a folk tale of deepening mystery, sadness and understated humor and poignancy. Based on a true story of the 1930s, Get Low touches on such themes as forgiveness, redemption, regret, self-imposed prisons, the difference between what people can’t and won’t do, love and lust with fine supporting performances from Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black (the kid from Sling Blade) and the always dependable Bill Cobbs as a pragmatic preacher.