Watching Peter Farrelly’s new film, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, and knowing little about it going in, I kept thinking this would be a totally absurd, beyond belief story if it isn’t one that really happened.
By the end I saw it is indeed 100% true, proving life can sometimes be stranger than fiction. As such it turns out to be one of the more memorable, and certainly heartfelt movies this year, as well as a Vietnam War movie that couldn’t be further from The Deer Hunter, Platoon, and Apocalypse Now, but a character-driven drama that defies logic but makes you believe once again in the power of the human spirit.
This is the rare Vietnam film seen from the POV of a civilian, a key reason it works as well as it does.This is Farrelly’s first film since winning Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay Oscars for 2018’s Green Book, and whether it is his lucky day or not it just had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in the same time slot and day of the week that Green Book premiered at TIFF.
That film went on to win the often Oscar predictive TIFF People’s Choice Award. Can lightning strike twice? It really doesn’t matter because this is a movie that defiantly marches to its own drummer.
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