The Peanut Butter Falcon

Director: Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz
Year Released: 2019
Rating: 2.5

Zak (Zack Gottsagen), an orphan with Down syndrome who lives in a retirement home, dreams of attending a wrestling school (run by Thomas Haden Church) so he sneaks out and ends up in the company of a fisherman named Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), who himself is on the run from crabbers Duncan (John Hawkes) and Ratboy (rapper Yelawolf) for destroying their equipment.  One thing that concerned me would be the treatment of the disabled Gottsagen, but it's actually respectful: the movie's argument is that just because someone is 'different' does not mean they shouldn't be treated as a human being with dreams and goals.  It does, unfortunately, have one too many scenes of Zak being called the r-word, and the plot only progresses because all of the characters apparently have NSA-grade tracking devices to find Zak and Tyler at just the right time, but that doesn't completely negate the old-timey vibes.