Longest Yard

The Longest Yard is a very funny movie, I highly recommend it!

Notes for 6-5-2005 2005

The Longest Yard was a rough, tough, and admirably gritty prison/football flick from Robert Aldrich.

Cinematical 2010

The Longest Yard was a rough, tough, and admirably gritty prison/football flick from Robert Aldrich.

Cinematical Cinematical staff 2010

Krakatoa: East of Java (1968), Ulzana's Raid (1972), and The Mean Machine aka The Longest Yard (1974).

SoundtrackNet 2009

Sure, there are the outliers I Love You Chuck and Larry ($34 million) and The Longest Yard ($47 million), but Sandler's broad comedies have opened between $37 million and $42 million pretty much every time since The Waterboy opened with $39 million in November, 1998.

Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: Toy Story 3 Retakes Box Office Crown, Grown Ups and Knight and Day Open Well 2010

In the aforementioned role and many of the others that followed -- in films like Starting Over and The Longest Yard and on Broadway and television -- she understood neurosis and weakness and worked from a strength that allowed her to confront them as an actor and invited audiences to approach them through her portrayals.

Laura Baudo Sillerman: Goodbye, Jill Clayburgh Laura Baudo Sillerman 2010

However two things concern me, the source material being an Archer novel, and Sheldon Turner wrote The Longest Yard, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, and has X-Men Origins: Magneto in the works, not exactly what you would expect for the film considering its subject matter.

Filmstalker: Another Mallory Everest film 2009

The Dirty Dozen takes the same criminal ensemble idea as The Longest Yard and introduces it to the richest film genre in terms of action the ensembles ideal bed fellow.

All-Time Top Ten Movie Ensembles… | Obsessed With Film 2009

You have an R-rated comedy starring a cast of unknowns and moderately recognizable faces that just opened bigger than all but one Adam Sandler comedy (The Longest Yard pulled in $47 million in 2005), and all but one Will Ferrell vehicle (Talledega Nights also opened with $47 million in 2006 ... which is also the only Judd Apatow-related film with a higher opening weekend).

Scott Mendelson: Whoops...The Hangover Is Actually Number 01 This Weekend 2009

The Longest Yard and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning screenwriter Sheldon Turner has become a popular studio scribe, having no less than seven of his projects picked up with the intention of being turned into movies.

New Regency pick-up INTO THE WILD meets LOST | Obsessed With Film 2008