Get Low (2009)

Director:

Aaron Schneider

Writers (WGA):

Chris Provenzano (screenplay) and
C. Gaby Mitchell (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

22 October 2010 (Poland)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery

Tagline:

Every secret dies somewhere.

Plot:

A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.

Plot Keywords:

Funeral | Hermit | Funeral Home | Party | Secret

Awards:

2 wins & 17 nominations

Cast

Robert Duvall	...	Felix Bush
Sissy Spacek	...	Mattie Darrow
Bill Murray	...	Frank Quinn
Lucas Black	...	Buddy
Gerald McRaney	...	Rev. Gus Horton
Bill Cobbs	...	Rev. Charlie Jackson
Scott Cooper	...	Carl
Lori Beth Edgeman	...	Kathryn
Linds Edwards	...	WKNG Announcer
Andrea Powell	...	Bonnie
Chandler Riggs	...	Tom
Danny Vinson	...	Grier
Blerim Destani	...	Gary
Tomasz Karolak	...	Orville
Andy Stahl	...	Photographer
Marc Gowan	...	Mr. Feldman
Gracie	...	Bush's Mule
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alex Corrado	...	Phil Norton
Shawn Knowles	...	Funeral Attendee
Arin Logan	...	Mary Lee Stroup
Randy Bratton	...	Funeral Attendee (uncredited)
Frances Cobb	...	Funeral Party Attendee (uncredited)
Rob Crowe	...	Wealthy Townsman (uncredited)
Jym Davis	...	Funeral Attendee (uncredited)
Calvin Gilmore	...	Barber (uncredited)
Rebecca Grant	...	Joan (uncredited)
Travis Grant	...	Funeral Attendee (uncredited)
Bella Marina Marcello	...	Funeral Scene Child (uncredited)
Jade Moser	...	Town Girl (uncredited)
Catherine Thornton	...	Funeral Attendee (uncredited)
Kirsten Van Wagner	...	Funeral Attendee (uncredited)
Alexis Walters	...	Wealthy Town Girl (uncredited)

Directed by
Aaron Schneider

Writing credits (WGA)
Chris Provenzano		(screenplay) and
C. Gaby Mitchell		(screenplay)
Chris Provenzano		(story) &
Scott Seeke		(story)

Produced by
Daniel Baur	....	executive producer
Rob Carliner	....	executive producer
Beth W. Crookham	....	executive producer
Blerim Destani	....	executive producer
Robert Duvall	....	executive producer
Scott Fischer	....	executive producer
Dariusz Gasiorowski	....	executive producer
David Ginsberg	....	executive producer
David Gundlach	....	producer
Don Mandrik	....	executive producer
Alain Midzic	....	executive producer
C. Gaby Mitchell	....	executive producer
Brad Park	....	executive producer
Brandie Park	....	executive producer
Justyna Pawlak	....	associate producer
Lily Phillips	....	associate producer
Chris Provenzano	....	executive producer
Joey Rappa	....	executive producer
Richard Luke Rothschild	....	co-producer
Oliver Simon	....	executive producer
Konrad Wojterkowski	....	executive producer
Dean Zanuck	....	producer
Harrison Zanuck	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek

Cinematography by
David Boyd

Film Editing by
Aaron Schneider

Casting by
Craig Fincannon
Lisa Mae Fincannon

Production Design by
Geoffrey Kirkland

Art Direction by
Korey Washington

Set Decoration by
Frank Galline

Costume Design by
Julie Weiss

Makeup Department
Andrea C. Brotherton	....	hair stylist
Colleen Callaghan	....	hair department head
Veronica Cox	....	assistant makeup artist
Ken Diaz	....	makeup department head
Natasha Ladek	....	wig maker
Carol Rasheed	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Richard Luke Rothschild	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Hope Garrison	....	second assistant director
Gavin Kleintop	....	second second assistant director
Eric Tignini	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Elliott Boswell	....	property master
Matthew Butler	....	key greensman
Deidra Lynn Currie	....	props
Patrick Fuhrman	....	leadman
Lawrence Heap	....	on-set dresser
Mallory Holloway	....	art department intern
Chris Hunter	....	storyboard artist
Julie Kobsa	....	assistant property master
Rich Koll	....	construction foreman
Amy Lehman	....	art department coordinator
Drew Meyers	....	set dresser
Chris Mills	....	set dresser
Mark Nave	....	construction foreman
James Passanante	....	lead scenic
Andy Rusk	....	carpenter

Sound Department
Stephen Hunter Flick	....	supervising sound editor
Avram D. Gold	....	supervising sound editor
Tim LeBlanc	....	sound re-recording mixer
Patricio A. Libenson	....	foley artist
Colt Logan	....	boom operator
Rafael Maryska	....	foley editor
Rafael Maryska	....	foley mixer
Mark Messick	....	sound editor
Jason Oliver	....	adr recordist
Jeffrey Perkins	....	sound re-recording mixer
Trevor Stott	....	sound utility
Deron Street	....	first assistant sound editor
Christopher Todd Weaver	....	playback operator
Ryan Young	....	adr mixer

Special Effects by
Scanlan Backus	....	special effects technician
Vincent Ball	....	special effects technician
Tommy Bruce Jr.	....	special effects technician
William Catania	....	special effects technician
James Cheshire	....	special effects technician
Paul Damien	....	special effects technician
Peter Damien	....	special effects technician
David Fletcher	....	special effects supervisor
Ken Gorrell	....	on-set coordinator
Heath Hood	....	special effects technician (as G. Heath Hood)
Thomas Kittle	....	special effects foreman
Brendan McHale	....	special effects technician
Greg Oliver	....	special effects technician
Matthew Scurry	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Denise Ballantyne	....	visual effects consultant
Patrick Clancey	....	digital opticals
Scott Dougherty	....	visual effects executive producer: Furious FX
Mathias Frodin	....	visual effects compositor: CIS Hollywood
Martin Hall	....	compositor: FuriousFX
David Lingenfelser	....	executive visual effects supervisor: Furious Fx
Philippe Majdalani	....	digital intermediate assistant producer
Landon Medeiros	....	compositor: Furious FX
James P. Noon	....	tracking
Chris Serenil	....	computer services manager
Mark Shoaf	....	cg supervisor: Furious FX
Prateep Siamwalla	....	tracking
Tiffany Smith	....	visual effects producer: Furious FX
Xye	....	tracking

Stunts
Scott Dale	....	stunt double: Robert Duvall
Bob Fisher	....	stunt double
Cal Johnson	....	stunt double: Robert Duvall

Camera and Electrical Department
Irie Bailey	....	electrician
Chris Birdsong	....	grip
Lee Blasingame	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
David Boyd	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Hugh Braselton	....	second assistant camera
Julie Donovan	....	first assistant camera
David Ellis	....	electrician
Sam Emerson	....	still photographer
Brian Gunter	....	camera operator: "c" camera
Brian Gunter	....	gaffer
Sherri Angela Leger	....	film loader
Alaina McManus	....	camera production assistant
Denny Mooradian	....	rigging gaffer
Ray Myers	....	lighting technician
Connor O'Malley	....	lighting technician
Daniel Pederson	....	electrician
Charles Praileau	....	rigging grip
John R. Priebe	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Alexander Sablow	....	camera production assistant
Greg Still	....	lighting technician
Troy Toebben	....	generator operator

Casting Department
Tara Feldstein	....	casting assistant
Patrick Ingram	....	extras casting
Shaun Lynch	....	extras casting assistant
Caitlin McKenna-Wilkinson	....	adr voice casting
John Fitzgerald Page	....	extras casting assistant
Nathan Wright	....	extras casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Frank Avanzo	....	set costumer
Emma Branch	....	costume assistant
Zenita Carswell	....	costumer
Janet Melody	....	key costumer
Dan Moore	....	costume supervisor
Robin Roberts	....	key costumer
Linda N. Robinson	....	seamstress
Kate Sawyer	....	set costumer
Heather Sease	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Bruce Goodman	....	colorist
Chris Jensen	....	senior digital colorist assist
Natasha Leonnet	....	digital intermediate colorist
Martha Pike	....	digital intermediate editor
Sterling Robertson	....	first assistant editor

Music Department
Jerry Douglas	....	composer: additional music
Christopher Kennedy	....	music editor
Evyen Klean	....	music supervisor
Janet Lopez	....	music coordinator

Transportation Department
Tracy L. Coker	....	driver
Ricky Damazio	....	transportation captain
Daniel La Fave	....	driver
Ken Robinson	....	driver
Bubba Thrift	....	transportation

Other crew
Robert Abramoff	....	production legal
Gaytra Arnold	....	accounting clerk
Stephanie Beman	....	craft service
Craig T. Brown	....	first assistant accountant
David Michael Brown	....	craft service
Gero Brugmann	....	legal advisor: financing
Clint Buckner	....	set production intern
Rick Callan	....	location manager
Stuart Cardwell	....	location assistant
Derron Delaney	....	medic
Derrick Doose	....	key set production assistant
Tyler Garnett	....	production assistant
Nicholas Giancola	....	production assistant
Corey Gilbert	....	assistant location
Megan Graham	....	script supervisor
Christina Grozik	....	film commissioner
Brandon Heaton	....	production assistant
Eric Henson	....	production assistant
Jason Johnson	....	production assistant
B. Todd Johnston	....	production secretary
Danielle King	....	production assistant
Carrie L.A.	....	location manager
Kim Larsen	....	production staff
Amy Lehman	....	accounting clerk: wrap
Paul Lowe	....	medic
Marc-H. Lutz	....	associate to co-financier
Patrick McDonald	....	stand-in
Tom Oastler	....	payroll accountant
David Peirce	....	grave digger
Christopher E. Pettus	....	craft service (as Christopher Earl Pettus)
Sia Sapoundjieva	....	assistant production coordinator
Trevor Schliefer	....	production assistant
Gene Michael Smith	....	additional crowd production assistant
Kyle Smithers	....	set production assistant
Rozanne Stark	....	set tutor
Cid Swank	....	unit publicist
Jared Threatt	....	assistant to director
Greg Tresan	....	animal wrangler
Katie Willard Troebs	....	production coordinator
Jason Underwood	....	key assistant location manager
Dana Wasdin	....	set production assistant

Thanks
Dick Bernstein	....	thanks
Xavier Granada	....	special thanks
Kerry Rock	....	thanks
Martine Smitka	....	very special thanks

Production Companies

• K5 International (presents)
• Zanuck Independent
• David Gundlach Productions (in co-production with)
• L.A.R.A. Enterprises.com (as Lara Enterprises) (in co-production with)
• TVN (in co-production with)
• Butcher's Run Films (in association with)

Distributors

• Sony Pictures Classics (2010) (USA) (theatrical)
• Imagine Film Distribution (IFD) (2011) (Belgium) (theatrical)
• Mongrel Media (2010) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Classics (2010) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Classics (2010) (Ireland) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Classics (2010) (South Africa) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Classics (2010) (UK) (theatrical)
• Wild Bunch Benelux (2011) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• A-Film Home Entertainment (2011) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Falcon Films (2010) (Lebanon) (all media) (Middle East)
• Film1 (2012) (Netherlands) (TV) (limited)
• PepperView Entertainment (2011) (Portugal) (all media)
• Rialto Distribution (2011) (Australia) (all media)
• Rialto Distribution (2011) (New Zealand) (all media)
• Shoval Film Production (2011) (Israel) (all media)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2011) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2011) (Argentina) (all media)

Special Effects

• Furious FX (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Act One Script Clearance  script research
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera dollies
• Digital Media Services (DMS)  digital marketing asset management
• Dolby Laboratories  sound mix
• EFilm  digital intermediate
• Gallagher Entertainment  insurance
• Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office  special thanks
• Lightnin' Production Rentals  transportation equipment
• Rounder Records  soundtrack
• Varèse Sarabande  score album

Also Known As:

"Am Ende des Weges" - Germany (DVD title)
"Az po grób" - Poland (imdb display title)
"Büyük sir" - Turkey (Turkish title) (imdb display title)
"El último gran día" - Spain (imdb display title)
"El funeral: Una fábula verdadera" - Argentina (imdb display title)
"Ennen aikojaan" - Finland (imdb display title)
"Get Low" - Sweden (imdb display title)
"Get Low - A Lenda de Felix Bush" - Portugal (imdb display title)
"Le grand jour" - France (imdb display title)
"Mesibat ha'halvaya sheli" - Israel (Hebrew title) (alternative title)
"Segredos de um Funeral" - Brazil (imdb display title)
"The Funeral Party" - Sweden (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some thematic material and brief violent content

Runtime:

Canada:100 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:103 min | Argentina:103 min

Country:

USA | Germany | Poland

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #45700) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Ontario) | Sweden:7 | Netherlands:9 | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade) | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Atkinson-Glover House - 19 Temple Avenue, Newnan, Georgia, USA

Company:

K5 International

Trivia:

Shipped to theaters under the code name "Burly Beard".

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: You can see a camera man in the reflection of the funeral coach.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Rev. Gus Horton:Good morning, sir.
Felix Bush:It's a hard life if you can't read.
Rev. Gus Horton:Pardon?
Felix Bush:[gestures toward NO DAMN TRESPASSING sign]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Maltin on Movies: The Best Films You Missed in 2010 (#1.20)" (2010)

A sublime Movie

This as close to a perfect movie as you will see this year. A simple story about an old codger who wants something in the nature of an odd request. His odd deeds have made him a legend in the area in which he lives (think the deep south). He has been alone for 4o years living in a run-down cabin and chasing kids and people off his property with a gun. He is the quintessence of a deeply unhappy mournful cranky old man, and he is played by one the great actors of his generation Robert Duvall, joined by an outstanding cast--Bill Murray. Sisy Spacek and others. It deals with life (and death) memories of youth, and deep love between a man and a woman which has lasted a long time. I will not give you the plot, just ask you see this movie as soon as possible. Despite its shoestring budget, it is a GREAT film, written produced and acted by some of the greatest talents of our time. Mr Duvall is worth seeing in this tale, but the supporting cast makes it a superb experience. If you want see a great film crafted by genius, then I urge you not miss it!!