Preview: Get Low (2010)

Synopsis:

Wanting to find out what people really think about him an aging recluse hires a mortuary to stage a living wake where he will tell his life story and put to rest all of the rumors and quandaries held by the surrounding community.

• Poster: C

Review:

Thematically, it just doesn't seem to fit. There's nothing symbolic of funerals or self-exploration, just a pair of actors in a field of wheat doing nothing of terrible importance.

• Trailer: C+; C+

Review:

There are too many over-the-top elements masked as down-to-earth ones to really take this film seriously. It's an obvious gimmick working really hard to be taken seriously.

The trailer isn't much better, just slightly transformed by more scenes. It's the same silly plot with a few critics notices trying to get people to think it's better than it probably is.

Oscar Prospects:

None

Release Date:

• July 30, 2010

Full Review Synopsis:

I have not seen this film.

-Wesley Lovell (May 23, 2010) Original

-Wesley Lovell (July 7, 2010) New Trailer, New Poster