Co-directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, The Peanut Butter Falcon is a modern-day adventure story with quirky characters and lessons learn like a Mark Twain story.

The movie follows Zak, played by Zack Gottsagen, a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck, played by Thomas Haden Church.

A strange turn of events connects him with Tyler, played by Shia LaBeouf. Tyler is a small-time outlaw on the run, who becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally. Together they wind through deltas, elude capture, drink whiskey, find God, catch fish, and convince Eleanor, Dakota Johnson, a kind nursing home employee charged with Zak’s return, to join them on their journey.

Both Nilson and Schwartz are new to directing but have a strong desire to make meaningful movies. The Peanut Butter Falcon won SXSW Film Festival Audience Award 2019.

The “Kidnapping” clip shows how the relationship between these three people develops.

Three more movie clips show the actors working together. Watching them, I am not sure where the movie is going with these two men. Dakota Johnson adds a tremendous amount of validity to the story. Watch the first two clips, then the one with her in it, and you will see what I mean.

The featurette is an eyeopener about three actors coming together and making a movie about a young man with Down syndrome.