The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

Whenever a movie is picked up for a theatrical release from South By Southwest, it's either just weird enough or just mainstream enough to hit a sweet spot.  Here we have both.

Zach Gottsagen plays Zac, and kudos to the filmmakers for casting an actual Down Syndrome Person in a lead role.  Zac is holed up in a long term care facility for seniors, kind of cast on the scrap heap.  With the help of his roommate Bruce Dern, he escapes and is symbolically reborn, even squeezing through the narrow opening and landing in his birthday suit looking like a baby in a diaper.

He crashes into Tyler (Shia LeBoauf) who is forced to go on the run after doing a bad thing to some bad men Marshall and Ratboy.  Tyler is on the run and brings Zac along, for various reasons. Along the way they travel on foot and by raft, a la Huck Finn, while being chased by the bad men as well as Eleanor (Dakota Johnson) who worked at the seniors facility and was ordered to Find Him.

Zac is interested in wrestling and wants to go the the wrestling school advertised by the Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church).  The classic hero's journey that he must make it there.  But what happens when he finds the Wizard?

Good casting, photography, a nice spin on a classic story
* * * * * (highest)