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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Longest Yard
is a 2005 American sports comedy film remake of the 1974 film of the
same name. Adam Sandler plays the protagonist, Paul Crewe, a disgraced
former professional football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Panthers,
who is coerced to form a team of from the prison inmates to play
American football against their guards. Burt Reynolds, who played Adam
Sandler's role in the original, plays a major role as Nate Scarborough,
the head coach and a former Heisman Trophy winner for Oklahoma in 1955,
and Chris Rock as Crewe's cell neighbor and friend known as Caretaker.
The ensemble supporting cast includes James Cromwell, Nelly, William
Fichtner and a number of then current and semi-retired football players
such as Terry Crews, Michael Irvin, Brian Bosworth and Bill Romanowski,
and professional wrestlers including Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bill
Goldberg, Kevin Nash, Bob Sapp and Dalip "The Great Khali" Singh Rana.
