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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.
May 27, 2005 · The Longest Yard: Directed by Peter Segal. With Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, Nelly. Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.
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 goes to prison and is forced to assemble a team to play against the guards.
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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May 27, 2005 · Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards.
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
After an unsuccessful attempt to outrun the police in a stolen vehicle, a retired football player, Paul Crewe, is sentenced to 3 years in prison, where he forms a football team made entirely of convicts to play against the very guards that uphold them. — JacobMc1304.
A washed-up former pro football quarterback - now in prison - is forced to lead a group of inmates in a gridiron grudge match against vicious prison guards.
Jun 20, 2024 · The Longest Yard (2005) Summary. The 2005 remake of The Longest Yard boasts a star-studded cast with notable comedians, veteran actors, football players, and wrestlers. Some of the big names included are Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, Nelly, James Cromwell, William Fichtner, and more, providing laughs and sports elements.
They will have to be content with a movie in which Adam Sandler plays an alcoholic has-been football hero who gets drunk, drives dangerously, is thrown into jail and becomes the pawn in a football game pitting a team of fellow prisoners against a team made up of prison guards.
