The Peanut Butter Falcon

"An odyssey audiences won’t soon forget"

VARIETY
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
  • USA 2019
  • 93 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Tyler is a crab fisherman living in poverty and despair, just this side of the law. Zak is a young man with Down syndrome living in a residential nursing home. Both men are seeking escape and when they do, circumstance brings them together for what will become a modern Mark Twain-style adventure through the sun-baked backwoods of North Carolina.

Winner of the SXSW Audience Award, The Peanut Butter Falcon brings together a stellar cast and gorgeous cinematography to create an amusing, contemporary folk odyssey that feels comfortably lived in and wonderfully natural.

Feature Debut


  • Director Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
  • Production Christopher Lemole, Tim Zajaros, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Lije Sarki, David Thies
  • Script Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
  • Cinematography Nigel Bluck
  • Editing Kevin Tent, Nat Fuller
  • Music Jonathan Sadoff, Zachary Dawes, Noam Pikelny, Gabe Witcher
  • Festivals SXSW (Audience Award), Melbourne
  • Actors Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen, John Hawkes, Bruce Dern, Thomas Haden Church, Jon Bernthal
  • Source United King Films, Ramat Hasharon