The Longest Yard

2005 113 min Drama, Comedy, Crime

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

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IMDb 6.4 RT 31 Metacritic 48

budget $90,000,000 earnings $191,466,556 return 2.1x

director Peter Segal

writers Sheldon Turner, Albert S. Ruddy

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