Zac Efron Is On A Mission In The First Trailer For the Greatest Beer Run Ever
Zac Efron has had an interesting go of it, starting with his days as a Disney heartthrob in the High School Musical series to proving he had a set of nasty comedy chops in the Neighbors film series alongside Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. Now he’s putting them to use again in a comedy based on the real-life story of a man making the most dangerous beer run in history.
The Peter Farrelly film, based on the book of the same name, features Efron as real life former marine-turned-merchant mariner, John “Chickie” Donahue. It opens on Donahue in a dugout with a soldier asking him if he’s ready. Ready for what? Running. As they run through a hail of gunfire, titles are superimposed: A REAL GUY ACTUALLY DID THIS. They dive down behind some sandbags the soldier says, “We’re halfway home.” Chickie pauses—“Halfway?!?” He then begins narrating the backstory over a shot of his character waking up in a twin bed in New York: “I’m ‘Chickie’ Donahue and I’m not supposed to be in Vietnam.”
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After scenes of protesters, “Chickie” Donahue is seen drinking in a neighborhood dive bar where the bartender, played by Bill Murray, says that the soldiers over there can see that lack of support on TV and that he wishes he could bring each of them a beer. Donahue says he could do that. His friend says he’s drunk and the bartender responds, “The man’s stone sober. That’s his fifth beer, maybe. Tops.” Donahue then stands up and shouts, “I’m going to Vietnam…and I’m bringin’ them beer!” His friends alternately cheer him on or facepalm.
Filling a duffel bag full of Pabst, he takes off for Vietnam aboard a cargo ship. Once in country he meets up with a war photographer played by Russell Crowe
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