Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 05/27/2005(USA)
Release Date: 09/20/2005
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 113 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Humor, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
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, All Movie Guide
