Film Review: ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Shia LaBeouf plays an outlaw fisherman who takes a wrestling-obsessed young man with Down syndrome under his wing in this good-natured road/raft-trip movie. But he’s determined to make his dreams come true. There’s only one problem: Zak has down syndrome and is being forced to live in a retirement home. And he’s just 22 years old. Zak doesn’t need much from life: All he wants to do is meet his all-time favorite wrestler, The Saltwater Redneck, and become a wrestler himself. ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Review: A River (and Wrestlers) Run Through It Offbeat road movie follows two misfit dreamers rafting their way … ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Review: Big Dreams and Possible Big Trouble A young man who has Down syndrome, played by Zack Gottsagen, goes on … brings the story of Zak and Tyler. PEANUT BUTTER FALCON also has some violence and a scene with drunkenness. As the movie opens, Zak, a 24 yr.old with Down Syndrome, is plotting to escape the facility where the state has put him (we later learn his family abandoned him). In "The Peanut Butter Falcon," co-written and co-directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, Zac (Zack Gottsagen) is a man with Down Syndrome who has been placed in a nursing home by the state since he has no family and no resources. Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson star with newcomer Zack Gottsagen in 'The Peanut Butter Falcon,' a modern-day riff on Huck Finn. It provides fresh entertainment in a summer overrun by sequels and superheroes, but MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution because of excessive foul language. Chris Stuckmann reviews The Peanut Butter Falcon, starring Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen, John Hawkes. The Peanut Butter Falcon review – Shia LaBeouf brings soul to odd-couple adventure 3 / 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars. "The Peanut Butter Falcon" (2019 release; 98 min.) ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Review: Big Dreams and Possible Big Trouble A young man who has Down syndrome, played by Zack Gottsagen, goes on … The Peanut Butter Falcon is an adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak (22), a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from the nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler by attending the wrestling school The Salt Water Redneck. Overall, THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON is a truly terrific, redemptive movie. 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 a 2019 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, and starring Shia LaBeouf, Zack Gottsagen, Dakota Johnson, John Hawkes, Bruce Dern, Jon Bernthal and Thomas Haden Church.Its plot follows a young man with Down syndrome (Gottsagen) who escapes from an assisted living facility and befriends a wayward fisherman on the …