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About this movie

Genres:
Sports, Comedy
Language:
English
Running time:
1:53:29
Partner rating:
PG-13
Released:

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Adam Sandler [Paul "Wrecking" Crewe]
  2. Chris Rock [Caretaker]
  3. Burt Reynolds [Nate]
  4. Scarborough Nelly [Meggert]
  5. Adam Sandler Paul "Wrecking" Crewe
  6. Chris Rock Caretaker
  7. Burt Reynolds Nate Scarborough
  8. Nelly Meggert
  9. James Cromwell Warden Hazen
  10. William Fichtner Captain Knauer
  11. Michael Irvin Deacon Moss
  12. David Patrick Kelly Unger
  13. Bill Romanowski Guard Lambert
  14. Bill Goldberg Battle

Directors

  1. Peter Segal

Producers

  1. David Gale
  2. Jack Giarraputo
  3. Albert S. Ruddy

Writers

  1. Albert S. Ruddy
  2. Sheldon Turner

The Longest Yard (2005)


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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 Crom... 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.
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Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'rotten' by Rotten Tomatoes

31%Tomatometer score: 31% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Negative review
    Richard Luck, Film4 A film we could live without, inspired by an original that was anything but essential. Full review External link
  2. Negative review
    Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine Homophobia, sexism, racism, ageism and OJ-ism pound against genre clich (C)s as weathered as Reynolds' skin, bludgeoning you into submission. Full review External link
  3. Negative review
    Paul Arendt, BBC Adam Sandler, of course, is no Burt Reynolds. But then neither is Burt Reynolds these days, judging by his performance as the team's crusty mentor. Full review External link
  4. Negative review
    Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper A Division III imitation of the original. Full review External link
  5. Negative review
    Ed Halter, Village Voice No uplifting populism here. Full review External link

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