Get Low

In Films by Brock Bourgase

Some of the best character actors in recent memory carry Get Low. Robert Duvall plays Felix Bush, an infamous hermit who wishes to throw himself a funeral party, Bill Murray is struggling funeral home director Frank Quinn, and Sissy Spacek is Bush’s former flame Mattie Darrow. Director Aaron Schneider faithfully recreates a rural community in Depression-era Tennessee (the tough economic times are the sole reason why Quinn – who is in financial trouble despire working in the one business everyone needs – humours Bush’s wishes); like America, the small town is full of characters both old and young who are …