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The Longest Yard (2005)
Director: Peter Segal
Movie review
From Time Out New York
Everyone involved with this remake claims the utmost respect for Robert Aldrich's raucously funny 1974 original. So you have to wonder why they crapped all over it, starting with the casting. Adam Sandler plays a drunken onetime pro quarterback, tossed in a Texas slammer and "asked" to train an inmate team for the guards to whale on. With the help of a Heisman Trophy–winner–turned-con (Reynolds, the original film's star) and a motormouthed jailhouse operator (Rock), the disgraced QB finds his purpose in life. The film, however, finds no purpose at all.Author: MM
Time Out New York website
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Segal
Producer: Jack Giarraputo
Cast: Adam Sandler, Burt Reynolds, Nelly, Chris Rock, James Cromwell, Bob Sapp, William Fichtner, Steve Austin, Bill Goldberg full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 113 mins
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