The Longest Yard R

It's Survival of the Fiercest and Funniest
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 29, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1974
  • Label: Paramount

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Part burlesque, part social commentary, it's a full out entertainment movie, saved from quick money facileness by the extraordinary "bad boy" comedy performance by Burt Reynolds and the quirky, offbeat direction of Robert Aldrich. Full Review
Los Angeles Free Press
Dec 10, 2019
Rating: B+ -- The original has just the right mix of toughness and humor. Burt Reynolds was born to play incarcerated quarterback Paul Crewe. Full Review
FulvueDrive-in.com
Feb 18, 2006
Rating: C+ -- Pardon me if I wasn't blown away by all its simplistic machinations and lighthearted appeal to one's baser instincts. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Oct 11, 2007
What saves it, aside from good performances by Burt Reynolds and a thundering herd of supporting grotesques, is, of all things, a tough, tiny nut of valid social criticism. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Aug 4, 2008
Rating: 4/5 -- The football sequences are excellent, which makes sense given that half of the actors were college or pro ballers themselves. Full Review
Bullz-Eye.com
Jul 5, 2005
Rating: 1.5/5 -- Though The Yard is a terrible picture, I'll admit to having unwillingly enjoyed some of the football practice and parts of the final game -- even though it's much too long. Full Review
New York Times
May 9, 2005
If it ultimately descends into macho nonsense, then that's all part of the fun. Full Review
Film4
Jul 31, 2008

Product Description:

In Robert Aldrich's crowd-pleasing classic, Burt Reynolds stars as convict Paul Crewe, a former football player doing time in a prison controlled by two authoritarian sports fanatics, warden Hazen (Eddie Albert) and captain Knauer (Ed Lauter). When Crewe sees that the guards have a top-notch football team, he takes it upon himself to form a squad with his fellow dispirited inmates. As the prisoners come together, galvanized by the chance to challenge the guards, they begin to experience a sense of purpose and solidarity--and Hazen doesn't like it. With the Penitentiary Bowl approaching, Hazen pressures Crewe to throw the big game. Crewe must choose between his own freedom and supporting the newfound dignity of his convict teammates.

Aldrich brings to THE LONGEST YARD the same humor-spiked, antihero-driven feel for rousing adventure shown in THE DIRTY DOZEN and creates a film that matches gridiron favorites NORTH DALLAS FORTY and SEMI-TOUGH while also comparing to classics such as ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, STALAG 17, and THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION that reveal the soul-crushing aspects of life under lock and key. Like the latter films, Aldrich's darkly funny, bone-crunching drama succeeds most enduringly by showing the small, barbed, fiercely beautiful refusal of the spirit to surrender.

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Longest yard Movie Lover: from SALEM, OR US -- July, 19, 2020

If you are a football and/or Bert Reynolds fan or just s fan of great comedy, this one is for you.????????


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  • UPC: 032429257451
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