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The Longest Yard is a crime, comedy and prison film directed by Peter Segal from a screenplay by Sheldon Turner. It stars Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds and Nelly, with Dean Semler as director of photography, Jeff Gourson as film editor and Teddy Castellucci composing the score. Adam Sandler also served as executive producer. Set in Texas and centred on American football, it was filmed in Long Beach and New Mexico, and produced in the United States by Callahan Filmworks, Paramount Pictures, MTV Films, Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions. The film had a budget of 90,000,000 and took in 191,466,556 at the box office. Running 113 minutes and rated PG-13, it was released in 2005, received three wins and seventeen nominations in total, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures and later Netflix.
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6.7Disgraced 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.
Cast
- Adam Sandler as Paul Crewe
- Chris Rock as Caretaker
- James Cromwell as Warden Hazen
- Nelly as Megget
- Michael Irvin as Deacon Moss
- Bob Sapp as Switowski
Themes
- prison
- corruption
- prisoner
- smuggling (contraband)
- sports
- american football
- blackmail
- american football coach
- texas
- san diego, california
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Ratings
IMDb
6.4/10
209,884 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
31%
Metacritic
48/100
- Year
- 2005
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Sport
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 3 wins & 17 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Peter Segal
- Screenplay by
- Sheldon Turner
- Based on
- The Longest Yard , 1974 film, by Tracy Keenan Wynn , Albert S. Ruddy
- Produced by
- Jack Giarraputo
- Starring
- Adam Sandler Chris Rock James Cromwell Nelly William Fichtner Burt Reynolds
- Cinematography
- Dean Semler
- Edited by
- Jeff Gourson
- Music by
- Teddy Castellucci
- Production companies
- Paramount Pictures Columbia Pictures MTV Films Happy Madison Productions Callahan Filmworks
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures , (United States and Canada) Sony Pictures Releasing International , (International)
- Release date
- May 27, 2005 ( 2005-05-27 )
- Running time
- 113 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $82 million
- Box office
- $191.5 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- sport film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Longest Yard
- Main subject
- American football
- Director
- Peter Segal
- Screenwriter
- Sheldon Turner
- Composer
- Teddy Castellucci
- Production company
- Paramount Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Dean Semler
- Narrative location
- Texas
- Filming location
- New Mexico
- Duration
- 113
- FilmAffinity ID
- 546814
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Sport
- American football
- Official website
- www.longestyard.com/longestyard.php
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- publication date
- 2005-09-22
- title
- The Longest Yard
- film editor
- Jeff Gourson
- distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- executive producer
- Adam Sandler
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 32%
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy film directed by Peter Segal and written by Sheldon Turner. A remake of 1974's film of the same name, it stars Adam Sandler as a washed-up former professional American football quarterback who goes to prison and is forced to assemble a team to play against the guards. The film co-stars Chris Rock, James Cromwell, Nelly, William Fichtner, David Patrick Kelly, Tracy Morgan, Cloris Leachman, and Burt Reynolds, who played Sandler's role in the original.
It was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada, and Sony Pictures Releasing–under the Columbia Pictures label–in other territories on May 27, 2005, to mixed reviews from critics, but the film was a box office success by grossing $191.2 million on an $82 million budget.
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