The Longest Yard Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Peter Segal
Genres: Comedy
Rating:
One of the toughest and best-remembered sports movies of the 1970s gets a humorous makeover in this comedy. Paul "Wrecking" Crewe (Adam_Sandler) was once a famous professional football player, but after several years out of the limelight and an alcohol problem have taken their toll, Crewe is arrested for a serious traffic accident aggravated by the fact he was drunk. Crewe is sentenced to Allenville Penitentiary, where Warden Hazen (James_Cromwell) is something of a football fan. Hazen had organized his guards into an impressive football team, and clears a healthy profit by taking bets on their games. Looking to make the competition more interesting, Hazen suggests that Crewe put together a team from the inmate population to play his guards. With the help of fellow prisoner Caretaker (Chris_Rock), Crewe recruits the heaviest hitters from the cell block for the team, but the guys don't play like a unit until Crewe and Caretaker get some help from Nate Scarborough (Burt_Reynolds), a former college and NFL coach doing hard time. Adapted from Robert_Aldrich's 1974 box-office smash of the same name, The Longest Yard also features rap star Nelly and Nicholas_Turturro; the film has previously been loosely remade in 2001 as Mean_Machine, with the action moved to England and the game changed to soccer. Mark Deming, Rovi
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