Monday, 31 August 2020

VOD: The Peanut Butter Falcon (dirs: Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, 2020)

"I want you to know about me."

The Peanut Butter Falcon is one of those small American slice-of-backwater-life dramas that gives a refreshing focus on story, character and relationships and has immense heart.  Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, escapes from his nursing home to find his dream wrestling school and hooks up with a very small-town hoodlum on the run, and their unfolding relationship is an absolute delight to watch, with Zack Gottsagen's lovely on-screen performance and Shia LeBoeuf giving one of his best and most genuine performances.  Cinematography and soundtrack are both beautiful, and the balance between comedy/drama and sentimentality/the real world makes The Peanut Butter Falcon a very appealing movie. 

 

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