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The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

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A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

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Cast & Crew

Director
Tyler Nilson
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    Zak Zack Gottsagen
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    Eleanor Dakota Johnson
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    Salt Water Redneck Thomas Haden Church
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    Duncan John Hawkes
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    Carl Bruce Dern
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    Mark Jon Bernthal
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    Ratboy Yelawolf

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Keywords

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