Quite a funny scene, actually. "The Longest Yard" was one of Robert Aldrich's most successful films and many claimed it was him "selling out," but viewed 30 years later this really does stand apart from many of the other sports-comedy films of the decade.
The Longest Yard did well at the box office. Its $47.6 million opening weekend was the largest of Sandler's career and only second to The Day After Tomorrow as the largest opening by a movie that was not #1. The film would go on to gross $158.1 million in the United States and Canada and $190 million worldwide.
It's just an all around fun film. Everyone does a great job with their roles (especially Sandler and Rock) and for an almost two hour movie, THE LONGEST YARD is fast-paced. Still, THE LONGEST YARD has its fair share of problems.
The Longest Yard opened in New York on August 21, 1974. This was followed by a release in Los Angeles on September 25, 1974 followed by a general release in October 1974. The film earned $22 million in North American theatrical rentals. It had admissions in France of 200,738.
Mean Machine is a 2001 British sports comedy film directed by Barry Skolnick and starring former footballer Vinnie Jones. The film is an adaptation of the 1974 American film The Longest Yard, featuring association football rather than American football.
Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, considered a sex symbol and icon of 1970s American popular culture.
In a remake of the 1974 Burt Reynolds film, Sandler played quarterback/prison inmate Paul Crewe alongside a stacked cast of Chris Rock, Nelly, James Cromwell, Tracy Morgan, Terry Crews and even the aforementioned Reynolds.
The Longest Yard may refer to: The Longest Yard (1974 film), starring Burt Reynolds. The Longest Yard (2005 film), remake of the 1974 film starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. The Longest Yard (soundtrack), soundtrack for the 2005 remake.
The movie also prominently features ex-football players like Terry Crews and Bill Goldberg. Even musicians like Nelly and pro wrestlers like Dalip Singh Rana and Steve Austin feature in the ensemble.
He has starred in Hollywood comedy films that cumulatively grossed over $2 billion worldwide. Sandler had an estimated net worth of $420 million in 2020, and signed a new four-movie deal with Netflix worth over $250 million.
It is a slightly updated, but fairly faithful remake of the 1974 film of the same name. This time, we have Adam Sandler who plays the incarcerated quarterback that Burt Reynolds played in the original. Reynolds is on hand to play a minor role which the original film also contained. The plot is still the same.
In the movie's production notes, Segal amends that to "He was quarterback of his Pop Warner team." Burt Reynolds, who has a small part in the remake, told Stuff Magazine that Sandler "never played high school football and he hadn't really thrown a football before 'The Longest Yard.
Parents need to know that this film pushes the edges of the PG-13 rating. It features repeated crude language (including one "f--k" and several uses of the "N" word), frequent violence on and off the football field, including one character burning to death in an explosion, beatings and hard tackles…
ED GORDON, host: Nelly is the latest rapper to try his hand at acting. He plays a convict in the film "The Longest Yard." The movie is a remake of the 1974 prison football comedy of the same name. This "Longest Yard" also reunites "Saturday Night Live" alums Adam Sandler and Chris Rock.
Why was Burt Reynolds buried two years after he died?
It's not clear why it took 2 1/2 years for the gravesite to be established. Reynold's surviving relatives have been private after his death about the process. The actor's legal and financial affairs were settled and closed in December, according to the Associated Press.
“He was just not good for me in any way. And he had somehow invented in his rethinking of everything that I was more important to him than he had thought, but I wasn't,” she told the publication. “He just wanted to have the thing he didn't have. I just didn't want to deal with that.”
Following the “Gunsmoke” star's death, Field did not attend his funeral; however, she released a heartwarming statement about him. “There are times in your life that are so indelible, they never fade away. They stay alive, even 40 years later,” the “Amazing Spider-Man” actress told Page Six in a statement at the time.
The 1974 original was based on a story by Al Ruddy, directed by Robert Aldrich and written by Tracy Keenan Wynn. It starred Reynolds as Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, a former star quarterback who is sentenced to 18 months in Citrus State Prison, where he puts together the Mean Machine team to play the guards' team.
Parents need to know that The Longest Yard is a 1974 sporting drama set in a prison with very strong language -- including racist and homophobic slurs -- violence, and smoking.
Who were the pro football players in the original longest yard?
Several professional football players appeared in The Longest Yard including Ray Nitschke, Joe Kapp, Gene (Dino) Washington and Mike Henry. Star Burt Reynolds had been a promising college football half-back for Florida State University when his career was cut short by a serious knee injury.
