The Longest Yard
Inmates versus guards
A 1974 American football comedy-drama film starring Burt Reynolds as a former pro quarterback who organizes a team of prison inmates to play against the guards.
The title refers to the final yard needed to score, dramatizing the climactic moment of the game.
The film was remade in 2005 with Adam Sandler.
By extension, the longest yard can describe any final, grueling stretch before achieving a goal.
- footballField sport with goals
- football fieldRectangular playing surface for American sport
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- inmatesIncarcerated individuals
- chain gangShackled convict work crew
Burt Reynolds · Adam Sandler · guards · gridiron · convicts · touchdown · first down · goal line · revenge · warden · team · comedy · game · mean machine · tackles · underdog · cellblock · redemption
- Sports FilmsRocky, Rudy, Hoosiers, The Natural, Field of Dreams
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- Paramount FilmsThe Godfather, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Top Gun, Grease
The Longest YardJerry Maguire
Rudy · Radio · The Natural · Chariots of Fire · Any Given Sunday
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