The Longest Yard (Widescreen Edition)
by Peter Segal
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Actor: Adam Sandler, Burt Reynolds, Chris Rock, Michael Irvin, NellyDirector: Peter Segal
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Producer: Adam Sandler
Producer: Albert S. Ruddy
Writer: Albert S. Ruddy
Producer: Allen Covert
Producer: Barry Bernardi
Writer: Sheldon Turner
Writer: Tracy Keenan Wynn
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Longest Yard (Widescreen Edition)
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Summary: 5 Stars
I have purchased so very many books, DVD's, and CD's through Amazon, and this is, unfortunately, only one of a FEW that actually is what it was purported to be....NOT A COPY.
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Summary of The Longest Yard (Widescreen Edition)
THE LONGEST YARD tells the story of pro quarterback Paul Crewe (Sandler) and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro (Reynolds) who are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game fixed to turn out quite another way.Adam Sandler is no Burt Reynolds, but his remake of The Longest Yard is amusing enough to stand on its own. Inheriting the role played by Reynolds played in the 1974 original, Sandler plays Paul Crewe, a scandalized former football star who violates his parole and winds up back in the slammer, where an ambitious, corrupt warden (James Cromwell) manipulates him into forming a convict football squad to compete with a team of bullying prison guards. But where the original (directed with characteristic ruggedness by Robert Aldrich) was a semi-comic study of inmate resistance against powerful oppressors, Sandler's version is a formulaic comedy about winning against the bad guys. That makes it a softer, less meaningful film, and Sandler (reuniting here with Peter Segal after Anger Management and 50 First Dates) lacks the depth to convey anything more than amiable redemption, resulting in a movie that's easily enjoyed and easily forgotten. A co-starring role for Chris Rock could have been electrifying; instead it's just OK, as is Reynolds as the prison team's old-pro coach. That leaves us with a few good laughs on the football field and from Cloris Leachman as the warden's elderly, oversexed secretary, good work from rapper Nelly in a supporting role, and the lovely sight of Courteney Cox (as Crewe's nagging girlfriend) in a dazzling low-cut dress. In unnecessary remakes like this, fringe benefits count for a lot. --Jeff Shannon
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