Mean Machine is a 2001 British comedy-drama film, directed by Barry Skolnick. It stars former Welsh footballer Vinnie Jones. The film is an adaptation of the 1974 American film The Longest Yard, featuring football rather than American football.
Danny Meehan, a former captain of England's national football team, who was banned for fixing a match between England and Germany, is sentenced to three years in Longmarsh prison after assaulting two polic...
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Mean Machine is a 2001 British comedy-drama film, directed by Barry Skolnick. It stars former Welsh footballer Vinnie Jones. The film is an adaptation of the 1974 American film The Longest Yard, featuring football rather than American football.
Danny Meehan, a former captain of England's national football team, who was banned for fixing a match between England and Germany, is sentenced to three years in Longmarsh prison after assaulting two police officers while drunk. Once inside, he is promptly beaten by the prison guards for misbehaving, and is subsequently approached by the prison warden. The warden offers Meehan a job as coach of the prison guards' football team. Not wanting to make enemies with the other prisoners, Meehan declines, and instead offers to train a practice team for the guards consisting of other inmates, who will take them on in a match.
Meehan ends up with the resident contraband dealer, Massive, as his right-hand man. He also receives advice from ancient convict,...
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