Greatest Beer Run Ever, The

[Opened Sept. 30 in theaters and available on Apple TV+.] When naïve, smooth-talking former Merchant Marine John "Chickie" Donohue (Zac Efron), who lives with his parents (Paul Adelstein and Shirleyann Kaladjian) and war protesting sister (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis) in Manhattan, decides to foolishly board a freighter in 1967 to deliver Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, supported by the local bar owner (Bill Murray), to childhood friends (Archie Renaux, Jake Picking, Will Ropp, and Kyle Allen) who are making sacrifices while serving in South Vietnam in Peter Farrelly's captivating, factually based, well-acted, entertaining, humorous, 126-minute comedic, biographical drama, he finds more than he bargained for, is helped by a war photographer and correspondent (Russell Crowe) after getting trapped in Saigon during the Tet Offensive, and returns home with a new profound perspective.
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