A couple weeks ago my family and I rented the movie, “The Peanut Butter Falcon,” starring Zach Gottsagen (Zak), Dakota Johnson (Eleanor), and Shia LeBeouf (Tyler).
We sat down to watch this movie like we do any other during “movie night” — calm, collected, interested and comfortable. We ended the movie covered in tears, tissues, and snot, wondering why we didn’t yet own the movie.
It’s that good. No, scratch that. It’s that amazing Zak, a ward of the state who has Down syndrome, has been put in a nursing facility at a young age because he doesn’t have a family and the state doesn’t have anywhere else for him to go, thinking he needed more care than he actually did.
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