"The Greatest Beer Run Ever" is a new action comedy feature directed by Peter Farrelly based on a true story, starring Zac Efron, Russell Crowe and Bill Murray, releasing in select theaters and streaming on Apple TV+, September 30, 2022:
".... in 1967, 'John Donohue' was a 26-year-old 'U.S. Marine Corps' vet working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar.
"The men gathered had lost family and friends in the ongoing war in Vietnam. One friend proposed an idea. Sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies in combat, and give each of them messages of support from back home, maybe some laughs and plenty of beer..."
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".... in 1967, 'John Donohue' was a 26-year-old 'U.S. Marine Corps' vet working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar.
"The men gathered had lost family and friends in the ongoing war in Vietnam. One friend proposed an idea. Sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies in combat, and give each of them messages of support from back home, maybe some laughs and plenty of beer..."
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- 9/17/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
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When filmmaker Peter Farrelly last attended the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018, his feel-good message movie Green Book would take home the festival’s People’s Choice award and go on to win three Oscars, including Best Picture.
It’s unlikely that lightning will be striking twice with his latest effort, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, which sees fit to address America’s involvement in the Vietnam War much in the same manner his previous film tackled the subject of race relations.
Inspired by the unlikely but true story of a working class New York Merchant Marine who boarded a ship bound for Saigon in 1967 with the sole intention of bringing his deployed buddies beer in order to lift their spirits, the new project, which arrives on Apple TV+ at the end of this month, admittedly holds some audience-pleasing potential. But while both the title and the set-up,...
When filmmaker Peter Farrelly last attended the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018, his feel-good message movie Green Book would take home the festival’s People’s Choice award and go on to win three Oscars, including Best Picture.
It’s unlikely that lightning will be striking twice with his latest effort, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, which sees fit to address America’s involvement in the Vietnam War much in the same manner his previous film tackled the subject of race relations.
Inspired by the unlikely but true story of a working class New York Merchant Marine who boarded a ship bound for Saigon in 1967 with the sole intention of bringing his deployed buddies beer in order to lift their spirits, the new project, which arrives on Apple TV+ at the end of this month, admittedly holds some audience-pleasing potential. But while both the title and the set-up,...
- 9/14/2022
- by Michael Rechtshaffen
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In his new book, Man with a Pan: Culinary Adventures of Fathers Who Cook for Their Families (Algonquin Books), New Yorker editor and cartoonist John Donohue compiles the secret ingredients (and more than 60 recipes) from men who regularly and willingly throw on an apron. Chef Mario Battali shares the dishes (monkfish liver, for breakfast) his boys crave. Novelist Stephen King offers his tried-and-true tips when using his “weapon of choice”—a frying pan. Below, Mark Kurlansky, journalist and award-winning author of more than ten books pertaining to food, confesses his culinary phobia: women who cook. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 5/16/2011
- Vanity Fair
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