I don't think I would get any early arguments from other Oscar pundits if I said Robert Duvall is the current frontrunner for the Best Actor Oscar for Get Low considering many thought he'd be a 2010 nominee had the film been released last year. However, perhaps Sony Pictures Classics already assumed Jeff Bridges had the race locked and would enter their aging horse a year later. However, unlike Bridges, this wouldn't be Duvall's first win as he has already been nominated for an Oscar six times and won in 1984 for Tender Mercies. Will Get Low make it two?

Get Low is directed by Aaron Schneider and the MPAA has rated it PG-13 for some thematic material and brief violent content.

The cast includes Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Lucas Black, Sissy Spacek, Bill Cobbs, Gerald McRaney and Scott Cooper.

Taking a leading role for the first time in several years, American legend Robert Duvall gives a performance of wisdom and nuance in Get Low. Complemented by a first-rate cast that includes Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Lucas Black, this classic story from a bygone era unfolds with quiet majesty.

For the past forty years, Felix Bush (Duvall) has lived as a hermit deep in the Tennessee woods. His clothes tattered, his manner rough and his expressions buried behind a massive white beard, he's an unnerving figure when he stalks into town with his mule, shotgun in hand. Some say he's killed men with his bare hands.

One day Bush walks into the local funeral parlour and announces to Frank Quinn (Murray), “'Bout time for me to get low. Down to business. I need a funeral.” More importantly, he wants a funeral party, an event that will draw all his friends and enemies to his shack in the woods for a final reckoning – and he wants to throw the party while he's still alive.

Based on a true story, Get Low has the feel of a classic American tale. Its style evokes westerns both old and new. There is something of Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller in director Aaron Schneider's storytelling, and something of Gordon Willis and Conrad Hall in the film's richly lit and composed images.