Russell Crowe and Zac Efron in Apple Original Film’s ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’
Military care packages are usually made up of useful items soldiers deployed overseas can use, such as sunblock, underwear, socks, and other personal supplies. The care packages are a way of letting the soldiers know that someone from home is thinking about them. In 1967, Chickie Donohue didn’t just send a care package to his buddies from his old neighborhood serving in Vietnam. Chickie traveled to the war-torn country personally to hand-deliver beer from their favorite NY bar. The story of his trip to Vietnam and the impact his up-close-and-personal experience with war had on his view of the conflict is told in Apple Original Films’ The Greatest Beer Run Ever.
The film starts with Chickie (Zac Efron), a Merchant Marine, drinking with some of his buddies at Doc Fiddler’s bar in Inwood, New York,...
Military care packages are usually made up of useful items soldiers deployed overseas can use, such as sunblock, underwear, socks, and other personal supplies. The care packages are a way of letting the soldiers know that someone from home is thinking about them. In 1967, Chickie Donohue didn’t just send a care package to his buddies from his old neighborhood serving in Vietnam. Chickie traveled to the war-torn country personally to hand-deliver beer from their favorite NY bar. The story of his trip to Vietnam and the impact his up-close-and-personal experience with war had on his view of the conflict is told in Apple Original Films’ The Greatest Beer Run Ever.
The film starts with Chickie (Zac Efron), a Merchant Marine, drinking with some of his buddies at Doc Fiddler’s bar in Inwood, New York,...
- 9/30/2022
- by Kevin Finnerty
- Showbiz Junkies
Watching Peter Farrelly’s new film, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, and knowing little about it going in, I kept thinking this would be a totally absurd, beyond belief story if it isn’t one that really happened. By the end I saw it is indeed 100 true, proving life can sometimes be stranger than fiction. As such it turns out to be one of the more memorable, and certainly heartfelt movies this year, as well as a Vietnam War movie that couldn’t be further from The Deer Hunter, Platoon, and Apocalypse Now, but a character-driven drama that defies logic but makes you believe once again in the power of the human spirit. This is the rare Vietnam film seen from the Pov of a civilian, a key reason it works as well as it does.
This is Farrelly’s first film since winning Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay Oscars for 2018’s Green Book,...
This is Farrelly’s first film since winning Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay Oscars for 2018’s Green Book,...
- 9/14/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
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