Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz's Wonderful "The Peanut Butter Falcon"

A few nights ago, I watched Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) on crave.ca. I enjoyed it immensely. For an excellent capsule review of this movie, I recommend The New Yorker’s “Goings On About Town” note by Bruce Diones. Here it is in full:

Zack Gottsagen, an actor with Down syndrome, stars in this affectionate drama as Zak, a young man with the same condition, who escapes from the Georgia nursing home where he lives in order to search for a professional-wrestling camp that he wants to enroll in. Along the way, he meets a small-time tidewater fisherman on the run (Shia LaBeouf), who reluctantly agrees to help him in his search. As their rafting trip begins, a nursing-home attendant (Dakota Johnson) looking for Zak catches up with them and eventually agrees to become a part of the adventure. The trio meet colorful characters in the course of this journey through photogenic landscapes (the cinematography is by Nigel Bluck). Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz wrote and directed the film; despite their screenplay’s clichés, they don’t let life-lesson dialogue distract from the genial Mark Twain-esque settings. Both Gottsagen and Johnson deliver endearing performances, and LaBeouf’s scruffy, ramshackle manner lifts the film above its predictable roots into something lived-in and surprisingly memorable.