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The Cheap Detective
1978 · Comedy · Crime
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346 votes
A true tall tale.
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.
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badelf
February 28, 2026
_[maybe some spoilers]_ Felix Bush, the hermit at the center of Get Low, has lived alone in the Tennessee woods for forty years, avoiding and avoided by townspeople, the subject of rumors and whispered stories. When he emerges to plan his own funeral party while he's still alive so he can hear what people say about him, it seems like the eccentric act of a crazy character. But this is a psychological mystery and dram…
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