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  Review by maria ★★★½ 5

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  a family doesn't have to be a wife, a husband, a daughter and a son, sometimes a family can be a crazy ass crab fisherman who burns $12,000 worth of shit cause he got denied selling his stolen goods, a 22-year-old with down syndrome who runs away from his retirement home to purse his long time dream of becoming a wrestler and his uptight carer who is looking for him everywhere and so conveniently runs into both of them

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 11

  if you ask my friends i watched the entire movie looking like that gif of Lenny at the awards show but inside i felt like a nice warm smile come to life! funny and nice and easy in a 2007 indie film kinda way, for better and worse! (give dakota johnson something interesting to do she deserves better)

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  Review by Lizzy ★★★★ 5

  as long as there is someone out there like zak who will see this movie and feel like they're valid and just as much of a person as everyone else is, i don't wanna hear shit about how this is just some generic indie movie

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  Review by Muriel 1

  the film embodiment of a hug

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★½ 20

  On paper, “The Peanut Butter Falcon” sounds like a cursed film; like a straight-faced parody of the quirkiest and most nauseatingly schematic American indies. The title alone takes you back to the awful darkness of “Napoleon Dynamite,” and the premise — a winsome young wrestling fan with Down syndrome escapes from his care facility with the help of a depressed crab fisherman played by Shia LaBeouf — could’ve been cobbled together by a computer program that’s been fed 20 years’ worth of rejected Sundance scripts.

  And the opening few minutes of the actual movie, in which our hero attempts a cute and kooky jailbreak while a banjo-tinged b-side from the “Beasts of the Southern Wild” score wails on the soundtrack,…

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  Review by kevin abstract ★★★★ 18

  Arclight premiere. Wholesome. Seems like something I’d watch w my sister back when I was younger.

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★½ 20

  Really charming but also kinda boring with some truly awful shot continuity and confusing character motivations. Also I'm not convinced that Dakota Johnson has ever acted before. Also also, I'm not convinced that Jon Bernthal has ever appeared in a movie for longer than 10 minutes.

  But on the plus side, Zack steals every scene he's in. Great performance

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  Review by Jay ★★★★ 8

  shia labeouf

  *gets his ass handed to him in a fight*

  shia laskinny

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  Review by LeSchroeck 17

  Manchmal dürfen Filme einfach nur schön sein. Selbst wenn sie vielleicht nicht perfekt sind. Und gerade, wenn ein Cast wie LeBeouf, Johnson, Gottsagen (!), Hawkes, Church & Jake "The Snake" Roberts so gut passt. Eine tränenziehende Südstaaten-Odyssee-Bromance. Mit viel Sumpf, viel Schilf, Hitze, Zikaden-Sounds, Dreck, Wrestling, Erdnussbutter, Hoffnung, Schweiß, Selbstgebranntem und Freundschaft. Könnte gefallen oder zur Liebe werden, wenn man Filme wie "American Honey", "Swiss Army Man", "Beasts of the Southern Wild", "The Straight Story", "The Florida Project" oder "Logan Lucky" mag. Meine Augen waren spätestens ab der Hälfte nicht mehr trocken.

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  Review by aaron ★★★★½

  what an utterly beautiful addition to the films that feel like warm hugs cinematic universe

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  Review by Evan DePasquale ★★★★½ 12

  "Friends are the family you choose"

  I'm going to start this off by saying, everyone that even has a small interest in seeing this, please go out and do so. I drove out an hour to check this out because I think it's important to go out and support films like these regardless if you enjoy the final product or not. Which by the way I absolutely adored this. 

  While I have heard that this is the feel-good movie you need to see, what I loved most was that it wasn't trying so hard like most films do. This felt honest and real, but also has that magical touch that gives it its charm. 

  The chemistry between Shia LaBeouf and…

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  Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★★★½ 9

  Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
  Metacritic Metascore: 70
  IMDB: 7.7

  91/100

  Distributor: Roadside Attractions
  Release date: 09 August 2019
  Budget: $6,200,000
  Worldwide Gross: $22,853,723
  Total awards: 21

  2019 Ranked

  Carl: "Friends are the family you choose."

  SYNOPSIS: Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true.
  - Source: IMDb

  I didn't have many expectations for this movie although the trailer made it seem like something original, which is always a plus nowadays. and definitely appealed to me. What a film. This movie was heartwarming, funny, and certainly unique. The chemistry between Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, and Zack Gottsagen felt very genuine and natural, not to mention likable.

  TRIVIA: The movie came about because the…