The Peanut Butter Falcon

The Peanut Butter Falcon is charming, enveloping, and an absolute joy.

TheWrap

2019 | PG-13 | Runtime 1hr 37min

Winner of multiple audience awards at major film festivals, including SXSW, Nantucket, Deauville, and Heartland, and named one of the National Board of Review’s Top Ten Independent Films.

A modern Mark Twain style adventure story, THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON tells the story of Zak (Gottsagen), a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church). A strange turn of events pairs him on the road with Tyler (LaBeouf), a small time outlaw on the run, who becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally. Together they wind through deltas, elude capture, drink whisky, find God, catch fish, and convince Eleanor (Johnson), a kind nursing home employee charged with Zak’s return, to join them on their journey.