The Longest Yard (2005)

Director:

Peter Segal

Writers (WGA):

Albert S. Ruddy (story)
Tracy Keenan Wynn (1974 screenplay)

Release Date:

27 May 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Sport

Tagline:

It was hard to put a team together... until they found out who they were playing.

Plot:

Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.

Plot Keywords:

Warden | Prison | Coach | Convict | Drunk Driving

Awards:

2 wins & 15 nominations

Cast

Adam Sandler	...	Paul Crewe
Chris Rock	...	Caretaker
Burt Reynolds	...	Coach Nate Scarborough
Nelly	...	Megget
Michael Irvin	...	Deacon Moss
Walter Williamson	...	Errol Dandridge
Bill Goldberg	...	Battle
Terry Crews	...	Cheeseburger Eddy
Bob Sapp	...	Switowski
Nicholas Turturro	...	Brucie
Dalip Singh	...	Turley
Lobo Sebastian	...	Torres
Joey Diaz	...	Big Tony (as Joey 'Coco' Diaz)
Steve Reevis	...	Baby Face Bob
David Patrick Kelly	...	Unger

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, violence, language and drug references.

Runtime:

113 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Sweden:11 | Philippines:PG-13 | Hong Kong:IIA | Germany:12 | Argentina:13 | Brazil:16 | Finland:K-15 | UK:15 (DVD rating) | Iceland:L | Canada:PG | Malaysia:U | South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Norway:15 | Singapore:PG | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 | Ireland:15A

Filming Locations:

Long Beach, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Brian Mann, quarterback of the Arena Football League team the Los Angeles Avengers, was Adam Sandler's stunt-double.

Goofs:

Continuity: Caretaker receives a package with a birthday cake inside from which he scoops out a pair of cleats, destroying one whole side. In the following scene, Switowski is eating the cake, which only has the center dug out.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Lorenzo: I love that dress.
Lena: Of course you do, Lorenzo, you made it.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Unleashing the Mean Machine (2005) (V)

Soundtrack:

Greek House

How can you not compare?

Everyone is instructing us not to compare the current to the original version. How is that possible? That's like going to a restaurant, being served a lousy steak, and being asked that you not compare it to other good steaks that you've had in the past.

To any guy who was watching movies in the 70's, The Longest Yard is legendary. Burt can act big enough and mean enough to convince us that he could survive, and become a leader, in the prison community. Adam Sandler is Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, Billy Madison and Little Nicky. He can't pull off the ex-NFL quarterback gaining cred in the joint. It was simply bad casting.

The rest of the casting, beginning to end, was superb. Most of the writing, and the additional comedy, was great fun. But Adam Sandler? Why not Woody Allen? The movie really needed someone that can pull off "tough". Josh Holloway, aka "Sawyer" on the TV show "Lost" might have been a good choice.

If they didn't want us to compare it to the original, they shouldn't have remade it.