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.
- Director
- Peter Segal
- Worldwide
- $191M
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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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Box Office & Release
The Longest Yard returned 2.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $90M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $191M
- Release date
- May 27, 2005
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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