The Greatest Beer Run Ever. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2017 book
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever
John 'Chick' Donohue, Joanna Molloy, 2017
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Peter Farrelly, 2022

In 1967, John Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar. The men gathered had lost family and friends in the ongoing war in Vietnam. One friend proposed an idea many might deem preposterous: one of them should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies in combat, and give each of them messages of support from back home, maybe some laughs, and beer.