Tagline: If you can’t get out, get even.
The Longest Yard is the story of pro quarterback Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro, who are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game “fixed” to turn out quite another way.
Adam Sandler and Chris Rock star in “The Longest Yard,” Paramount Pictures’s and Columbia Pictures’s comic story of a former pro quarterback trying to make good in the toughest possible situation. When former NFL player Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) is sent to prison, the warden forces him to transform a diverse group of inmates into a football team.
Unlikely teammates, the convicts unite when they find out who they are playing: the guards. With the help of fellow inmates Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) and Caretaker (Chris Rock), Crewe promises the cons a chance to exact revenge in a bone-crushing showdown where anything goes. The Mean Machine returns to the gridiron in this new take on the 1974 classic.
The Longest Yard (2005)
Directed by: Peter Segal
Starring: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, James Cromwell, Cloris Leachman, Nicholas Turturro, Steve Reevis, David Patrick Kelly, Terry Crews, Bill Goldberg
Screenplay by: Sheldon Turner
Production Design by: Perry Andelin Blake
Cinematography by: Dean Semler
Film Editing by: Jeff Gourson
Costume Design by: Ellen Lutter
Set Decoration by: Gary Fettis
Art Direction by: Alan Au, Domenic Silvestri
Music by: Teddy Castellucci
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, violence, language, drug references.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: May 27, 2005
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