A sweet indie road movie / coming of friends, not the most original story line (harks back to Huck Finn) but with the twist that the hero of the piece is a Downs Syndrome actor Zack Gottsagen. He befriends Shia LaBeouf after escaping Dakota Johnson and Bruce Dern in a retirement home. They're pursued by John Hawkes (True Detective 4, Three Billboards, Winter's Bone) and some other dude. John Bernthal is the dead brother and Thomas Haden Church the wrestler (knew I recognised him but couldn't place him).
Nigel Bluck is on widescreen camera duties filming Georgia, which looks like the Florida it's above. Editing by Kevin Tent and Nat Fuller.
I presume the ending touch, where the boy throws the wrester out of the ring a touch of 'magical realism' - it doesn't quite work for me.
The directors had only made shorts before this. Their new one is Los Frikis, set in 1990s Cuba.
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