Movie
The Longest Yard
If you can't get out, get even.
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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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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Synopsis
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.
More about The Longest Yard
Cast
Adam SandlerPaul Crewe
Chris RockCaretaker
James CromwellWarden Hazen
NellyMegget
Michael IrvinDeacon Moss
Bob SappSwitowski
William FichtnerCaptain Knauer
Cloris LeachmanLynetteCredits
- Directed by
- Peter Segal
- Written by
- Sheldon Turner, Albert S. Ruddy
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $90M
- Box office
- $191.5M
Production
- Callahan FilmworksUnited States
Paramount PicturesUnited States
MTV FilmsUnited States
Columbia PicturesUnited States
Happy Madison ProductionsUnited States
