The kind of story you could tell to a kid at bedtime or round the campfire. Parents need to know that The Peanut Butter Falcon is an empowering road/buddy movie with themes of kindness and empathy. The Peanut Butter Falcon is not a showy film. Before the pitchforks are raised about separating the art from the artist, potential viewers should know that Ferrara and LaBeouf clearly don’t want you to do that. It avoids sentimentality for the sake of it, instead relying on character beats and plot points that feel earned rather than forced. Kaitlyn Dever and Joey King gush over a script in a. The entire cast excel, but this is partly because the story is so flawlessly written. Margot Robbie, Kaitlyn Dever, Joey King and ‘Peanut Butter Falcon’ Duo Shopping Hot TV Series (Exclusive) Ben Stiller begs for a role. Elsewhere, Bruce Dern is as mischievous as ever as Zak’s confidante in the care home, and Dakota Johnson holds the whole thing together with a grounded and nuanced turn as the damaged Eleanor. He also brings the best out of Shia LaBeouf who continues his career renaissance with another excellent performance here. Hilarious (but always in on the joke), supremely likeable and also heartbreakingly fragile when called for. I should start by saying that Gottsagen has Down Syndrome in real life and was discovered in an acting workshop for people with a disability. Along with carer Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), the two unlikely friends attempt to escape their previously shitty circumstances. John Hawkes, Thomas Haden Church, Bruce Dern, John Bernthal, Dakota Johnson and more are all part of the cast of the upcoming The Peanut Butter Falcon. His dreams of becoming a wrestler are buoyed when he meets troubled drifter Tyler (Shia LaBeouf). Zak (Zack Gottsagen) suffers from Down Syndrome and so lives his life trapped in a care home mostly made up of old people. And surely that is something we can all get behind… Most of all, The Peanut Butter Falcon is just a beautiful ode to being weird. However, it does share some DNA with all the aforementioned. The Peanut Butter Falcon is neither British, nor a TV show. But the truth remains, that while none of those shows will ever receive the plaudits they deserve, perhaps the fact that they are so underrated only adds to their charm. Or to continue the comparison with underrated British TV shows, the exquisite joy that comes from watching the masterpiece that is The Detectorists. You know when it feels like something deserves to be seen by a whole lot more people than it has been? The dark humour of Flowers.
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