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The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy film directed by Peter Segal and written by Sheldon Turner. A remake of 1974's The Longest Yard, it stars Adam Sandler as a washed-up former professional American football quarterback who, in exchange for a reduced prison sentence, is forced to assemble a team to play against the guards.
May 27, 2005 · Adam Sandler stars as a former football player who leads a team of prisoners to challenge the guards in a football game. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this remake of the 1974 classic.
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- Comedy, Crime, Sport
- Peter Segal
- 2005-05-27
The Longest Yard: Directed by Robert Aldrich. With Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad. A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.
- Robert Aldrich
- 4 min
The Longest Yard is a 1974 American prison sports comedy-drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn, based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy, and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad and James Hampton. The film was released as The Mean Machine in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
An ex-football star doing time is forced by the warden to organize a team of inmates to play against his own line-up of guards. The warden tries to blackmail him into throwing the game, but the ...
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- Robert Aldrich
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- Burt Reynolds
Summaries. Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards. Paul "Wrecking" Crewe was a revered football superstar back in his day, but that time has since faded. But when a messy drunk driving incident lands him in jail, Paul finds he was specifically requested by Warden Hazen (James Cromwell), a duplicitous prison official ...
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May 27, 2005 · A comedy drama about a former pro football quarterback who leads a team of inmates in a game against the guards in a Texas prison. Watch the trailer, read the synopsis, and see the user and critic ratings on The Movie Database.
