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-Adam
Sandler
Director
Peter
Segal
(50
FIRST
DATES,
ANGER
MANAGEMENT)
and
comedian
Adam
Sandler
are
at
it
again
in a
fun
remake
of
the
1974
classic,
THE
LONGEST
YARD.
In
the
role
of
Paul
"Wrecking"
Crewe,
first
immortalized
by
Burt
Reynolds
(who
appears
here
as
Nate
Scarborough),
Sandler
plays
an
ex-football
star
whose
career
ended
amidst
allegations
of
point
shaving.
Fed
up,
he
drunkenly
steals
his
unfriendly
wife's
(an
uncredited
Courtney
Cox)
luxury
car
and
drives
it
into
a
multi-car
pileup.
This
lands
Crewe
in a
cruel
Texas
state
penitentiary.
His
only
respite
comes
from
Warden
Hazen
(James
Cromwell)
who
wants
Crewe
to
help
lead
his
well-equipped
prison-guard
football
team
to
the
league
championship.
Crewe
timorously
agrees,
suggesting
the
creation
of
an
opposing
team
of
convicts
to
the
give
the
guards
an
easy
tune-up
before
the
season.
To
the
ragtag
inmates,
this
is
the
chance
they've
been
waiting
for,
and
they
hustle
to
get
their
team
together
so
they
can
exact
some
revenge
on
the
harassing
guards.
In
THE
LONGEST
YARD,
Sandler
steps
out
of
the
spotlight
he
enjoyed
in
films
like
BILLY
MADISON
and
HAPPY
GILMORE
and
is
instead
content
to
let
his
sizable
cast
of
costars
shine
in
the
comedic
light.
Both
the
guard
and
the
convict
teams
are
infused
with
solid
contributions
from
a
swath
of
entertaining
personalities:
ex-football
stars
Michael
Irvin,
Bill
Romanowski
and
Brian
Bosworth;
pro
wrestlers
Bill
Goldberg
and
"Stone-Cold"
Steve
Austin;
ESPN
anchors
Chris
Berman
and
Dan
Patrick;
and
famed
rapper
Nelly.
However,
it
is
Chris
Rock,
as
Crewe's
friend
Caretaker,
whose
scenes
never
fail
to
steal
the
show,
providing
some
of
the
movie's
most
memorable
laughs.
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of
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1948-2006
Muze
Inc.
and
Muze
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