The Peanut Butter Falcon
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
24 people
Tyler Nilson Director · Michael Schwartz Director Noam Pikelny Composer
Worldwide gross $24M · Budget $6.2M · United States release August 9, 2019
Box office
Budget
$6,200,000
Worldwide gross
$23,712,097
Gross vs. budget
3.8×
Production
Bona Fide Productions
Production
Armory Films
Production
1993
Production
Tvacom Film and TV
Production
Roadside Attractions
Studio
Lucky Treehouse
Production
Nut Bucket Films
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 9, 2019
Premiere · South by Southwest Film Festival
United States · August 9, 2019
Limited theatrical
United States
June 7, 2019 · Premiere · Lighthouse International Film Festival
June 22, 2019 · Premiere · Nantucket Film Festival
August 23, 2019 · Theatrical
Australia
August 6, 2019 · Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
October 1, 2019 · Theatrical
March 1, 2020 · Digital
Canada
August 23, 2019 · Limited theatrical
August 30, 2019 · Limited theatrical · Montreal
Denmark
March 12, 2020 · Theatrical
Finland
September 27, 2019 · Theatrical
France
September 11, 2019 · Premiere · Deauville Film Festival
January 23, 2020 · Digital
September 1, 2022 · Digital · Prime Video
Germany
October 3, 2019 · Premiere · Hamburg Film Festival
December 19, 2019 · Theatrical
Greece
October 8, 2020 · Theatrical
Hong Kong SAR China
May 28, 2020 · Theatrical
Ireland
October 18, 2019 · Theatrical
Israel
October 13, 2019 · Premiere · Haifa Film Festival
Japan
February 7, 2020 · Digital
New Zealand
August 1, 2020 · Digital
Poland
January 3, 2020 · Theatrical
Portugal
August 29, 2019 · Theatrical
Russia
September 24, 2019 · Premiere · American Film Festival
October 24, 2019 · Theatrical
Singapore
January 16, 2020 · Theatrical
South Korea
April 7, 2021 · Theatrical
Spain
June 26, 2020 · Premiere · BCN Film Fest
July 17, 2020 · Theatrical
Sweden
January 29, 2020 · Premiere · Göteborg Film Festival
March 20, 2020 · Theatrical
Switzerland
February 20, 2020 · Digital
Taiwan
November 16, 2019 · Premiere · Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
Thailand
September 26, 2019 · Theatrical
Ukraine
October 17, 2019 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
October 3, 2019 · Premiere · BFI London Film Festival
October 18, 2019 · Theatrical
November 11, 2019 · Premiere · FilmBath Festival
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