The Peanut Butter Falcon
Fueled by LaBeouf and Gottsagen’s screen chemistry,The Peanut Butter Falconmakes for a charmingly funny and often touching adventure.
There ’s something deeply personal about Shia LaBeouf ’s functioning inThe Peanut Butter Falcon . His character , Tyler , is in many ways a broken military man ; once a happy , clean - shaven lad who expend his nighttime ginmill - hopping with his chum ( Jon Bernthal , always a delight , even in talks - barren flashbacks ) , he ’s a traumatized , seedy crabmeat black cat prone to fierceness by the time the film introduces him in the present tense . ( The comparisons to LaBeouf ’s much - publicized offscreen battle in the substantial universe spell themselves . ) It ’s a testament to just how endearing the Peanut Butter Falcon himself , Zak , is that Tyler ’s personal journeying from whisky - slog criminal to sustain and protective mentor never strains credibility in the movie , either .
ego - distinguish as a"modern Mark Twain style adventure story",The Peanut Butter Falcon- an Audience Award succeeder at the 2019 SXSW - is a part buddy funniness , part idiosyncratic , yet heartfelt , odyssey through the U.S. South that lives up to the promise of that verbal description . The scrappy hero at the heart of its story is brought to life by Zack Gottsagen , making this a frustratingly still - uncommon occurrent where an mortal with a disability - in this face , Down Syndrome - is allow to portray a fully - developed persona on the grown projection screen . As such , there ’s an authenticity and sincerity to not only the filmmaking here , but also its efforts to extend some good histrionics . fuel by LaBeouf and Gottsagen ’s screen alchemy , The Peanut Butter Falconmakes for a charmingly fishy and often match risky venture .
Gottsagen , as Zak , has a malcontent emotional state that would indeed make Huck Finn proud ; leave without a family unit , he spends his days either trying to break loose his ho-hum life at a retirement mansion - with more than a small help from his fellow residents - or rewatching an old VHS tape measure have his god , The Salt Water Redneck ( Thomas Hayden Church ) , and daydream of wait on his grapple schoolhouse . When he ultimately manages to break out ( in zero but his underclothes ) , Zak circumstantially crosses paths with Tyler , who ’s only recently go on the run himself for grounds involving incendiarism and an raging fellow fisherman bring up Duncan ( John Hawkes ) . And as unlikely a distich as they might be , the chemical bond that imprint between them is authentically moving and sweet without ever becoming saccharine or resort to unearned sentimentality .
pen and direct by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz ( both making their feature debut),The Peanut Butter Falconfollows these " fugitive " on a journey that brings them face to facial expression with an eclectic assortment of Southerners , even as they travel on foot or by riverboat . The cinema was heavy informed by Nilson ’s memories and experience living in North Carolina ( though it was actually shot in Georgia ) , and it shows ; far from feeling like a tourist ’s scout to the American South , the pic ’s background is a full-bodied and textured world of swamp , deltas , and tall grass paint in affectionate subtlety of green and brown by stateless person Nigel Bluck ( who , as illustrate by his old work onTrue Detective , know this region all too well ) , and further heighten by the beautifully unsophisticated soundtrack and score from Zachary Dawes , Noah Pikelny , Jonathan Sadoff , and Gabe Witcher . As far as first clock time efforts go , it ’s pleasantly assured and positive in its tone and general style .
That ’s not to say the film is without its shortcoming ; as much asThe Peanut Butter Falconis an kinky body of work of indie cinema , it ’s still drawing from the tried and true and true tropes of the route movie genre , and in the end finds its way along a conversant path . likewise , a phone number of the supporting players here teeterboard on the edge of being stereotypes - but come off as veridical people in the hands of such capable talents - and Dakota Johnson is n’t yield quite the same amount of meter and attention as her co - leads , even though her part ( Eleanor , the gentle breast feeding place employee who ’s tasked with take Zak in ) is indispensable to the film ’s aroused core . Nevertheless , its overarching subject matter about the grandness of family organize , copulate with its sympathies for the predicament of its marginalize and/or unhinge protagonists , makes these flaws all the easier to bear .
In accession to being a warm - hearted and refreshfully personal alternative to the more generic and corporate - minded tentpoles of the summer , The Peanut Butter Falconmakes a star out of the delicious Gottsagen , and may even foretell the beginning of the incoming LaBeouf - aissance ( ahead of his already acclaim autobiographical drama , Honey Boy , hitting theaters later this fall ) . The film ’s lovely rural visuals and scenery alone pee it worth checking out on the big screen , but it ’s also the variety of public presentation - driven offering that , of course , can still be appreciate at house by those who do n’t get the chance to see it in house . Those who do , however , are encouraged to skip aboard this cinematic river mass and follow its heroes on their winding , wondrous ocean trip .
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The Peanut Butter Falconis now encounter in select U.S. theaters . It is 93 minutes recollective and is rated PG-13 for thematic capacity , language throughout , some violence and smoking .
The Peanut Butter Falcon is a devout escapade film steer by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz . It stars Zack Gottsagen as Zak , a young human being with Down syndrome who escapes from a attention quickness to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler . Along the way , he befriends a troubled fisherman , played by Shia LaBeouf , and together they embark on an unforgettable journey .
Shia LaBeouf in The Peanut Butter Falcon
Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen, and Shia LaBeouf in The Peanut Butter Falcon
