Chattanooga Pulse

Eccentrics usually don’t happen by chance.  When we meet someone, we often wonder about them.  Most people aren’t inclined to share their life stories during casual conversation.  So we investigate.  We ask others.  We invent reasons for personality quirks or work habits.  We rarely know as much as we think we do about anyone.

There are some people, however, about whom we know even less.  Some people are deliberate in their obfuscation.  They hide themselves, for reasons known only to them.  Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is a man who has so expertly hidden himself, the residents of a small, out-of-the-way East Tennessee town have had to dramatically invent stories, tall tales, and fabrications, in order to explain to themselves why a man would seclude himself for 40 years in a backwoods cabin with only a mule and a shotgun for companionship.  The truth is never as complicated as it seems; secrets are only shocking to those closest to them.  Lesser men than Felix would take their secrets to the grave.

Filmed in northern Georgia and set in Roane County, Tennessee, Get Low is loosely based on the true more »