Great Lakes Cinema Series: The Peanut Butter Falcon

Shown on the Center’s 45-foot screen with Dolby surround sound, plus full concessions available!

Winner of multiple audience awards at major film festivals, including SXSW, Nantucket, Deauville, and Heartland, and named one of the National Board of Review’s Top Ten Independent Films.

A modern Mark Twain-style adventure story, THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON tells the story of Zak (Gottsagen), a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church). A strange turn of events pairs him on the road with Tyler (LaBeouf), a small-time outlaw on the run, who becomes Zak’s unlikely coach and ally. Together they wind through deltas, elude capture, drink whisky, find God, catch fish, and convince Eleanor (Johnson), a kind nursing home employee charged with Zak’s return, to join them on their journey.