Friendship has no last call.
Chickie wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam, so he does something wild—personally bring them American beer. What starts as a well-meaning journey quickly changes Chickie's life and perspective.
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- Louisa Moore - Screen Zealotson TMDB · Apr 20235/10
**By: Louisa Moore / www.ScreenZealots.com** What bugs me the most about “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” is director Peter Farrelly’s indecisiveness. He can’t seem to pick a tone and stick with it. The first part is filled with lighthearted moments that make it seem like the film is a tailor-made crowd-pleasing movie. The last half of the film (and the strongest) is firm in its anti-war messaging. Farrelly tries to be too many things to too many people, and the result is a film that feels at odds with itself. Set in 1967, the film tells the true story of Chickie Donohue (Zac Efron), a man who wants to do something special to show his support for his neighborhood friends serving in Vietnam. He gets the outrageous idea to hand-deliver cans of beer to them on the front lines so they can have a little taste of home, and to show them that somebody back in New York still cares. When the locals start to encourage (and count on) Chickie to complete his mission, the man sets off for the jungles of Vietnam with a rucksack full of Pabst Blue Ribbon. It’s a terrific story that should make a great film. The problem is that there isn’t much to the movie other than the premise. Some of the situation
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Oct 20226/10
This tells the true story of Chickie Donohue (Zac Efron) who decided that he was fed up hearing the continuing reports of bad news from the Vietnam war, and so decided to travel to the war zone - as a civilian - and take the serving friends from his neighbourhood some beer! Using a combination of guile and brass neck, he is soon in situ, where he encounters the cynical journalist Arthur Coates (Russell Crowe) before embarking on his trek to deliver his beer. If it were not fact, it would really beggar belief this - the hand that serendipity plays in ensuring not just his safety, but the manner in which he blags his way around this tortured land, is sometimes just a little too difficult to believe. Efron is never going to be a good versatile actor, but to give him his due he delivers well enough here with a decent script and once we enter the final phase that involves more of a contribution from Crowe, the film picks up giving us some indication of just how perilous life was for those facing the Viet Cong's stealthy advance. It's not without it's humour and it illustrates amusingly just how afraid everyone was of falling foul of the CIA - a confusion which he was able to take advant
Read the whole review on TMDB - Chandler Danieron TMDB · Dec 20238/10
Unfortunately not funny. Good war footage and engaging fish-out-of-water scenes. Crowe stuff is great. Kind of like Forrest Gump.
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Cast
- Zac EfronJohn 'Chickie' Donohue
- Russell CroweArthur Coates
- Kyle AllenBobby Pappas
- Bill MurrayThe Colonel
- Jake PickingRick Duggan
- Will RoppKevin McLoone
- Archie RenauxTom Collins
- Ruby Ashbourne SerkisChristine
- Will HochmanTommy Minogue
- Christopher Reed BrownNoodle
Crew
- Peter FarrellyDirector
- Peter FarrellyScreenplay
- Brian Hayes CurrieScreenplay
- Pete JonesScreenplay
- John DonohueNovel
- Joanna MolloyNovel
- Sean PorterDirector of Photography
- Dave PalmerOriginal Music Composer
- Patrick J. Don VitoEditor
- Brett GlatmanProducer
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