Celebrate Global Running Day With ‘Brittany Runs A Marathon’

Today, June 5, is Global Running Day. I hope you’re celebrating by consuming a donut or consuming a bottle of wine. Anything however working. Take it from me, a man who ran eight miles this morning (consider me, not a brag) and seemed like a bathroom monster by the top of it. But for anybody who’s been in search of an excuse to begin working, and even skilled runners, get pumped up for the celebration of all issues “what if walking, but fast” with the Brittany Runs a Marathon trailer.

Directed and written by Paul Downs Colaizzo, the comedy stars the always-welcome Jillian Bell (Workaholics, Eastbound & Down) as Brittany, a hard-partying Adderall abuser who’s instructed by her physician to lose 55 kilos. To enhance her bodily and psychological well-being, she begins working, one block at a time. Before lengthy, Brittany is able to conquer the New York City Marathon. That’s 26.2 miles of distress… nevertheless it’s all price it while you cross that end line.

Here’s the official plot abstract.

Hilarious, outgoing, and all the time up for a superb time, New Yorker Brittany Forgler is all people’s greatest pal ― besides perhaps her personal. At 27, her hard-partying methods, continual underemployment and poisonous relationships are catching up along with her, however when she stops by a brand new physician’s workplace to attempt to rating some Adderall, she will get slapped with a prescription she by no means needed: Get wholesome. Too broke for a health club and too proud to ask for assist, Brit is at a loss, till her seemingly collectively neighbor Catherine pushes her to lace up her Converse sneakers and run one sweaty block. The subsequent day, she runs two. And quickly, after ending her first mile, she units an nearly unthinkable objective: working within the New York City Marathon.

Brittany Runs a Marathon opens on August 23.

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