Mean Machine
It's Not Just About Football, It's About Pride Inside!
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers.He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners.When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.
- Worldwide
- $7M
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Cast
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What It's About
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Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.
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Box Office & Release
Mean Machine returned 2.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $3M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $7M
- Release date
- Dec 26, 2001
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, Italian
- Country
- United Kingdom
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