PREVIEW: The Greatest Beer Run Ever (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Zac Efron (The Paperboy), Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind), Bill Murray (Lost in Translation), Jake Picking (Top Gun: Maverick), Will Ropp (Silk Road), Archie Renaux (Morbius), Kyle Allen (The Map of Tiny Perfect Things), Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (La Cha Cha), Matt Cook (Being the Ricardos), Omari K. Chancellor (film debut), Will Hochman (Let Him Go), Goya Robles (A Winter Rose), Kevin K. Tran (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Peter Farrelly (Green Book), director, writer; Brian Hayes Currie (Two Tickets to Paradise) and Pete Jones (Hall Pass), writers; David Ellison (Top Gun: Maverick), Dana Goldberg (Geostorm), Don Granger (The Tomorrow War), Andrew Muscato (Mooch) and Jake Myers (Mission: Impossible – Fallout), producers; Dave Palmer (Beginners), composer; Sean Porter (20th Century Women), cinematographer; Patrick J. Don Vito (A Good Old Fashioned Orgy), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 1967, New York merchant seaman and former US Marine John “Chickie” Donohue (Efron) is challenged to sneak into Vietnam, locate his childhood friends who are serving in combat, and bring them beer and many other meaningful items…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Peter Farrelly’s follow-up to his controversial Best Picture winner Green Book is a fun-loving story about war and comradeship, told with an impeccable sense of humour and, of course, lots of beer.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON APPLE TV+

 

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