Episode 2 - "The Greatest Beer Run Ever" Review

27/10/2022 28 min Temporada 1 Episodio 2

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Episode Synopsis

Andrew and Ted take a look at Apple TV's original release "The Greatest Beer Run Ever" starring Zac Efron as John "Chickie" Donohue.  Based upon the story of the real John "Chickie" Donohue who decides, after his local bartender "The Colonel" (Bill Murray) plants the idea, to show his support of all the local boys fighting in Vietnam by taking them a beer from old neighborhood.  So in "Chickie's" capacity as a merchant seaman scores a crew position on a freighter making a delivery to Saigon.  Once there he convinces the merchant ship's captain that he needs a shore pass so that he can inform his non-existent step brother that his father is dead.  Once granted, the almost blind adventure of delivering beers to his old neighbor buddies begins in earnest.  Along the way "Chickie" encounters the reality of war and befriends war correspondent Arthur Coates (Russell Crowe) that helps him navigate the through the truth of what is actually happening in Vietnam.

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