Get Low (film)

Get Low is a 2009 drama film about a Tennessee hermit in the 1930s who throws his own funeral party while still alive. It was directed by Aaron Schneider, written by Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell, and starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney, Bill Cobbs, Arin Logan, Lori Beth Edgeman, Andrea Powell, Rebecca Grant, Scott Cooper and Chandler Riggs. The motion picture was filmed entirely on location in Georgia, and support for the production was provided by the Georgia Department of Economic Development.

No one really knows Felix Bush Robert Duvall, who lives as a hermit deep in the woods. Rumors surround him, such as how he might have killed in cold blood, and that hes in league with the devil. So the town is surprised when Felix shows up in town with a fat wad of cash, requesting a funeral party for himself. Frank Quinn Bill Murray, the owner of the local funeral parlor in financial trouble, coveting Bushs wad of cash, agrees to advertise a funeral party at which the townsfolk will be invited to tell Felix Bush the stories theyve heard about him. To ensure a good turnout, a lottery is organized, with Bushs property as the prize. Many people buy tickets.Things get more complicated when an old mystery is remembered, involving a local widow named Mattie Darrow Sissy Spacek, who was Bushs girlfriend in their youth, and her deceased sister, Mary Lee Stroup Arin Logan. With the help of a preacher who insists on Bush telling her the truth, Bush tells those gathered at his funeral party, particularly Mattie, what happened forty years earlier. He reveals his affair with Matties married sister, Mary Lee. He confesses to Mattie that it was Mary Lee who was his true love, his only love. They made plans to run away together, and when she didnt arrive at the agreed place, he went to her home to search for her. He discovered that her husband had attacked her with a hammer, knocking her out. The husband threw a kerosene lamp against a wall to set the house on fire and kill himself, the unconscious Mary Lee, and Bush. Bush freed himself from the attacking husband, but as his clothes caught fire, he also saw Mary Lee catch fire. As he went to put the fire out, he felt himself flying through the window, possibly pushed by the husband, and he was unable to reenter the house to save Mary Lee. ........

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