"The Peanut Butter Falcon"

"The Peanut Butter Falcon" was written and directed by both Mike Schwartz

and Tyler Nilson and stars Shia LaBoeuf, Bruce Dern, Dakota Johnson and

an amazing actor, Zack Gottsagen, who, in real life has, and who plays the role of,

a young man afflicted with Down syndrome. This is a tender and sweet story

of a disabled person with a dream and of those willing to assist him in

attaining it. Unfortunately, the powerful message is conveyed via a thin

vehicle that would better have been exhibited as a short film for there just

isn't enough substance to sustain and carry it as a full length feature.

I give the film 2 stars for, in attempting to be a modern day

Hucklebery Finn saga of life on or near

the Mississippi, the film goes nowhere and, like the current on the

river, continues downstream to its shallow end.