The Longest Yard (DVD)

The Longest Yard

Back in his prime, Paul "Wrecking" Crewe (Adam Sandler) was the quarterback everyone loved. But when accused of shaving points off a football game, he was out of the picture and hasn't been seen in action since. One night when his obnoxious girlfriend tries to get him to attend her party while he's in the middle of watching a football game. Then he tricks her into going into the closet for a "gift" he had stashed away for her and locks her inside. Then he takes her car out for a drive (even though he's extremely drunk and paranoid). He's later stopped by the police, but proceeds his wreckless driving anyway, only to end up in a huge massacre that ends with the car being completely killed and surrounded by thousands of policeman all over television! Crewe is later sent to Allenville State Penitantry where he meets the gruesome guardsmen headed by Captain Knauer (William Foryster) and commanded by the sleazy Warden Hazen (James Cromwell). After spending a week in the hotbox, Hazen recruits him to help out with the guards football team. But despite Crewe's previous refusal, he decides to organize a "fixed game" in which the prison inmates [under Crewe's leadership along with the helpful support of Caretaker (Chris Rock) and legendary football coach Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds)] will organize a football team of their own for a game of football against the guards. This is the moment every convict has been waiting for: a free shot against the guards. The one chance for one day to take a stand in the misdt of a contact sport and fight back! Now the guards are about to get something they had coming to them for a long time: Payback by the inmates! Of course, Crewe dosen't expect his boys to stand a chance against Hazen's Guards. But come game day, it takes a valuable lesson in self-respect and pride to learn that in order to get your second chance, you have take it like there's no tommorow or the next twenty-five years in Allenville Prison.

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In this movie remake, a former NFL MVP pro quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) is sent to prison. The warden (James Cromwell) wants Paul to help coach his semi-pro prison guards' team back to the championship. Paul says no at first, but the sadistic warden has him beaten and put in the hot box. Paul now agrees to do anything the warden wants. Paul comes up with the idea that the guards need a warm-up game with the inmates. Paul gets the Caretaker (Chris Rock) and Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) to recruit a team of the meanest and biggest inmates in the prison. The inmates only join the team to get their revenge against the guards in a no-holds-barred game. At first, Paul is just playing a football game, but later he realizes that he wants to win the game for his teammates, and his new friends. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)