The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy film directed by Peter Segal and written by Sheldon Turner.

A remake of 1974's movie of the same name, it stars Adam Sandler as a washed-up former professional American football quarterback who goes to prison and is forced to assemble a team to play against the guards.

The film co-stars Chris Rock, James Cromwell, Nelly, William Fichtner, David Patrick Kelly, Tracy Morgan, Cloris Leachman, and Burt Reynolds, who played Sandler's role in the original.

One night, dissatisfied with his life, he gets drunk during a party and goes joyriding through San Diego in his girlfriend Lena's Bentley, causing a high-speed police chase and car crash.

Instead of being imprisoned in California, he gets transferred to Texas, thanks to the influence and contacts of Warden Rudolph Hazen, an avid football fan.

After witnessing Crewe's temerity during a one-on-one basketball game against Moss, one of the black inmates Earl Megget decides to join the team as their running back.

Caretaker unknowingly enters the cell to give a photo gift to Crewe but is killed when he tries to turn the dial on the radio.

After earning a three-touchdown lead on the Mean Machines, the Guards brutally injure the inmates, spurring Crewe to re-enter the field.

Deacon and Battle then dump Gatorade on Hazen, while Crewe and Scarbrough go to get information on where Unger is so that psychotic inmate Switowski can deal with him.

[2] The football game at the end of the movie was filmed at Murdock Stadium at the El Camino College in Torrance, California.

[6] Roger Ebert, in the critical minority with this title, gave it a "Thumbs Up", defending it later in his Chicago Sun-Times review as a film that "...more or less achieves what most of the people attending it will expect."

[citation needed] Burt Reynolds earned a nomination at the 26th Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Supporting Actor for his performance in both this film and The Dukes of Hazzard.