The Peanut Butter Falcon
Directors: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
Actors: Dakota Johnson, Shia LaBeouf, Zack Gottsagen
Release Date: Friday 18th October 2019
Genre(s): Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Running time: 97 minutes
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.
