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Production Year: 2005 - Action/Adventure - Director: Peter Segal - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Burt Reynolds, William Fichtner, Nelly, James Cromwell, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler more

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Director Peter Segal (50 FIRST DATES, ANGER MANAGEMENT) and comedian Adam Sandler are at it again in a fun remake of the 1974 classic, THE LONGEST YARD. In the role of Paul...
more...Wrecking Crewe, first immortalised by Burt Reynolds (who appears here as Nate Scarborough), Sandler plays an ex-football star whose career ended amidst allegations of point shaving. Fed up, he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wife's (an uncredited Courtney Cox) luxury car and drives it into a multi-car pileup. This lands Crewe in a cruel Texas state penitentiary. His only respite comes from Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) who wants Crewe to help lead his well-equipped prison-guard football team to the league championship. Crewe timorously agrees, suggesting the creation of an opposing team of convicts to the give the guards an easy tune-up before the season. To the ragtag inmates, this is the chance they've been waiting for, and they hustle to get their team together so they can exact some revenge on the harassing guards. In THE LONGEST YARD, Sandler steps out of the spotlight he enjoyed in films like BILLY MADISON and HAPPY GILMORE and is instead content to let his sizable cast of co-stars shine in the comedic light. Both the guard and the convict teams are infused with solid contributions from a swath of entertaining personalities: ex-football stars Michael Irvin, Bill Romanowski and Brian Bosworth; pro wrestlers Bill Goldberg and Stone-Cold Steve Austin; ESPN anchors Chris Berman and Dan Patrick; and famed rapper Nelly. However, it is Chris Rock, as Crewe's friend Caretaker, whose scenes never fail to steal the show, providing some of the movie's most memorable laughs.





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Touchdown !!
A review by chris-greenfield on The Longest Yard DVD
November 24th, 2007


Author's product rating:   The Longest Yard DVD - rated by chris-greenfield

Did you enjoy it? Liked it 
Story Satisfactory 
Characters / Performances Good 
Special Effects Standard 
Soundtrack Average 

Advantages: great film, very funny
Disadvantages: storyline  !

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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Adam Sandler stars in this funny movie about a revered American football superstar who finds himself in jail after a reckless drink driving offense in his girlfriends car. He gets taken to jail where he gets set a task of creating an American football team from the convicts. He gets a team together with a little help from another inmate "caretaker" and challenged the guards to a match. the film is about how Paul (A. Sandler) creates this team and gives the guards what the inmates have wanted to give them for some time. I personally loved this film, i found it highly enjoyable and very funny.

Cast:
Adam Sandler - Paul Crewe
Chris Rock - Caretaker
Burt Reynolds - Coach Nate Scarborough
Nelly - Megget
Michael Irvin - Deacon Moss
Walter Williamson - Errol Dandridge

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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Running Time: 113 Mins
Cert: 12A (language, drugs and sexual remarks )
Released: 9th September 2005

Writer: Albert S. Ruddy
Director: Peter Segal 

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