Zac Efron as John ‘Chickie’ Donohue with Jake Picking as Rick Duggan
PETER FARRELLY IS not, he is at pains to point out, Rob Reiner. Farrelly, whose new war drama The Greatest Beer Run Ever arrives in the wake of his Oscar-winning Green Book, hails the versatility of Reiner, a director whose first four films, from Stand By Me to The Princess Bride, proved that he could take on any genre. “We just did a series of comedies, as those were the ideas that came to us,” he says of his and his brother Bobby’s body of work, which includes There’s Something About Mary and Dumb And Dumber.