After going solo and winning the Best Picture Academy Award for Green Book, Peter Farrelly has slowly reverted to broad comedic form. Farrelly’s next film, Balls Up, is the latest in Prime Video’s growing catalog of buddy comedies, starring Mark Wahlberg and Paul Water Hauser as rival sports marketing execs stuck in Brazil after causing a global incident with their plan for a full-coverage condom sponsored by the World Cup.
In case that premise didn’t clue you in, Balls Up is goofy AF, and in the same vein as Peter’s recent comedy, Ricky Stanicky, also with Amazon. The script is by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the duo behind the Zombieland and Deadpool movies. These guys are pros at the chaotic style of humor, and we know Wahlberg and Hauser can match that energy.
Also in the cast are Benjamin Bratt, Eva De Dominici, Daniela Melchior, Molly Shannon, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Eric André.
SYNOPSIS: In this raunchy, over-the-top comedy, marketing executives Brad (Mark Wahlberg) and Elijah (Paul Walter Hauser) go “balls out” and pitch a bold full‑coverage condom sponsorship with the World Cup. After their drunken celebration in Brazil sparks a global scandal, they must outrun furious fans, criminals, and power-hungry officials to salvage their careers and make it home alive.
Balls Up hits Prime Video on April 15th.
