GET LOW opens today at South Lamar. "What in tarnation is this picture all about?!" (You might wonder aloud in an affected crazy coot hermit voice). Well, it's about a crazy old codger who decides that after decades living alone in the woods he's going throw his own funeral, inviting all the townsfolk who've been gossiping about him for years already to come and tell tales about while he takes it all in. A slick funeral home owner gets wind of this plan and decides he's going win over the old codger's business. That's just the jump off, there's plenty of plot that I won't spoil here.
As Peter Travers puts it in Rolling Stone, "All you need to know is that GET LOW puts Robert Duvall and Bill Murray in the same movie. Only a fool would want to miss that."
Director Aaron Schneider's feature film not only pairs these two elder sweethearts of cinema, it gives them plenty of room to do what they do best: create poignant, sometimes funny, and supremely entertaining characters. A. O. Scott of the New York Times praises the film for "giving [Duvall] time and room to explore the crevices of a wily, wounded soul, [proving] that Mr. Duvall is still able to carry a movie easily and gracefully. And Austin Chronicle's Marc Savlov raves, "this may be Bill Murray's best role since LOST IN TRANSLATION."
In short, GET LOW is probably just what you need at this point in the summer. No explosions, no robots, no 3D (not that we don't love that stuff!), just plain old good acting and a fine story well told.