The Peanut Butter Falcon

A gentle piece, this has a little bit of a 90s-Sundance-Movie feeling, a story of three people on a road trip - in this case, led by a 22 year old with Downs syndrome determined to escape from the nursing home he's been stuck in since he has no other family - meeting up along the way with a lonely seafood thief and the carer who's meant to bring him back. There's a very sweet nature to this one - while it's a little unlikely in some places, and the ending is, to say the least, abrupt (the climax reaches the right heights, but the following scene-and-a bit leave us a bit "that's it"?) the journey along the way pays off. Including a very strong cast (La Boef proves to be quite a resoanable actor when not having to talk to giant robots exclusively, Zack Gottsagen is a great presence, and such performers as Bruce Dern and John Hawkes are, frankly, slightly overqualified for what the film needs from them but nevertheless give solid background - Dakota Johnston is the one member of the lead trio who feels underwritten). So it's a reasonably enjoyable flick