The Peanut Butter Falcon
The Peanut Butter Falcon is a 2019 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, in their directorial film debut, and starring Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, John Hawkes and Zack Gottsagen. The plot follows a young man with Down syndrome who escapes from an assisted living facility and befriends a wayward fisherman on the run. As the two men form a rapid bond, a social worker attempts to track them. Filming took place in North Carolina and Georgia.
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| Country | United States
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Trucker: Good enough. She don't run away, so I guess that makes her mine.
- Two former professional wrestlers appear in the movie, Jake Roberts aka Jake the Snake, and Mick Foley who wrestled under the monikers Mankind, Cactus Jack and Dude Love.
- Although the film received no Academy Award nominations, the two stars appeared together at the Academy Awards show. Gottsagen became the first individual with Down syndrome to present an Academy Award when he and LaBeouf announced the Best Live Action Short Film on February 9, 2020.
- One of Bruce Dern's earliest roles was in Marnie (1964), opposite Dakota Johnson's grandmother, Tippi Hedren. He also appeared in Smile (1975) and Mulholland Falls (1996) with Johnson's mother Melanie Griffith and in Django Unchained (2012) with Johnson's father Don Johnson.
- The movie came about because the directors met Zack Gottsagen at a camp for disabled and non-disabled people and he expressed his desire to be a movie star. So the directors wrote the script around him and Zack's hopes and dreams that bled into the script and people they knew who would allow them to film for free and without permits.
- It became a sleeper hit, becoming the highest grossing independent film of 2019.
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