

The Longest Yard
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A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2.9M
- Box office
- $43M
- Language
- English
- prison
- sports
- american football
- georgia
- quarterback
- palm beach, florida
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR21 Aug 1974
BrazilBR
- Physical14Sony Home mj.gov.br15 Dec 2005
FranceFR
- TheatricalU19 Mar 1975
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1212 Dec 1974
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1615 Dec 1974
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1516 May 1975
JapanJP
- TheatricalG17 May 1975
SpainES
- Theatrical21 Mar 1975
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The Longest Yard was released on 21 August 1974.
Audience reviews
2- J9/10
John Chard
9/9/2018
Football and prison is a recipe for brutal mirth. Disgraced former pro football quarterback Paul Crewe is sent to prison after a drunken night to remember. The prison is run by Warden Hazen, a football nut who spies an opportunity to utilise Crewe's ability at the sport to enhance the prison guards' team skills. After initially declining to help, Crewe is swayed into putting together a team of convicts to take on …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
11/25/2024
On the face of it, the warden "Eddie Albert" maybe wasn't having his brightest idea when he decides that his prisoners should play a game of American football against his guards, but when a former pro is sent down for eighteen months after an altercation with a Citröen and the harbour, he has just the man to put together an opposing team. "Crewe" (Burt Reynolds) is offered preferential treatment for himself - and tha…
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