The Peanut Butter Falcon – 2019 Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz
Not groundbreaking by any stretch but the cast and consistent southern soundtrack lug it through into the archives
Shia LaBeouf certain has found something with his southern hobo trashy (almost like he’s auditioning for a Harmony Korine film) charming romantic lead—he plays on a variation of American Honey here- his greatest role to date- and he’s strong here carrying the film
93 minutes- key- breezy, lots of sweet montages of comradery
The ensemble is strong- John Hawkes doesn’t have more than 30 words but it’s a role if you were closing your eyes you’d cast him as (southern villain in a wife-beater), Thomas Hayden Church, Bruce Dern and Dakota Johnson
Mark Twain in the text and it is that- a yarn – a fable- and the reality vs. fable element) is played up with the mentions of his fake “birthday party” and we get the happy ending before a potentially surreal scene (not unlike The Florida Project from Sean Baker of Zack Gottsagen’s “Zak” blowing out the candles
Life-affirming—positive, sweet
like Wind River and Widows Jon Bernthal (who is always good) plays dead character shown entirely in a flashback– weird
Is essentially Rain Man-lite
Recommend but fringy—won’t get near the top 10 of 2019
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