Is The Peanut Butter Falcon A True Story? Here's What's Real & What's Not
2019's The Peanut Butter Falcon is an inspirational film about a man with Down syndrome and the friends who help him actualize his dreams via a road trip from Virginia to North Carolina, but is The Peanut Butter Falcon based on a true story? The Peanut Butter Falcon centers around Zak (Zack Gottsagen), a young man with Down syndrome who runs away from his old life of constant care to realize his dream of becoming a professional wrestler. Although The Peanut Butter Falcon isn't wholly based on a true story, there is enough truth behind the events in the movie.
The opening of The Peanut Butter Falcon finds Zak escaping from the nursing home he's been living in for the past two years. He makes his escape proper by getting on a boat owned by Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), who agrees to take him from Virginia to North Carolina, where Zak hopes to attend a wrestling school he's seen on TV. Along the way, Zak and Tyler begin to bond, which is further developed when Dakota Johnson's Eleanor (who worked at the nursing home) joins them. The feel-good movie received positive reviews when The Peanut Butter Falcon premiered at SXSW 2019 back in March, winning an Audience Award at the festival.
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Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz's The Peanut Butter Falcon seems just a little too crazy to not be based on a true story, and one of the best things about The Peanut Butter Falcon is how inspirational and heartwarming the winding tale is. Films like CODA (which is based on a true story), The Theory of Everything, and Breathe are finally bringing some much-needed visibility within the industry towards real-life figures and their livelihoods. Most drama/inspirational films are usually based on events that
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