Zac Effron and Peter Farrelly cordially invite you on The Greatest Beer Run Ever
The trailer for Farrelly’s Green Book follow-up reunites the director with Kingpin star Bill Murray
Peter Farrelly—[ahem] excuse me—Academy Award-winning director Peter Farrelly, the filmmaker behind Green Book and the scene in Dumb And Dumber where Jeff Daniels takes a big old shit, would like to invite you on the Greatest Beer Run Ever. Now, you might be thinking, what does the guy who wrote the line “how the hell d’you get the beans above the frank” know about beer, well, not much. But when it comes to crowd-pleasers that make white Baby Boomers feel ok about their Post-Reagan cultural heel turn, he’s Orson Welles.
And so, Farrelly brings Zac Effron and Russell Crowe together for The Greatest Beer Run Ever, a Vietnam War dramedy about a beer-guzzling nobody from New York named Chickie who makes it his bee’s wax to bring every American soldier from the neighborhood a beer. Chickie must remind them that these protestors don’t know what they’re talking about because people still care about the troops; never mind that the stories about protestors spitting on soldiers and calling them “baby killers” is a myth. But what good’s the truth when you’re making a feel-good movie about the Vietnam War, a largely feel-good event that saw 3 million casualties?