The Longest Yard

The Longest Yard

If you can't get out, get even.

Rating

3.0 (1)

Release Date

5/27/2005

Runtime

113 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$90,000,000

Revenue

$191,466,556

Homepage

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A high-energy underdog sports comedy that uses a prison football game as the stage for a story about dignity and resistance against institutional corruption. It's funny, brawny, and rooted in the fantasy of the powerless getting their moment to fight back.

Mood

DefiantExhilarating

Themes

RedemptionPowerFriendship

Tone

Comedic

Pacing

Brisk

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Graphic violence

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