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The Longest Yard
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy rough-edged underdog stories with ensemble camaraderie, institutional conflict, and hard-won emotional release.
- Tone
- darkly comic, tense, uplifting
- Payoff
- catharsis, amusement
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- dignity, solidarity, corruption, redemption, defiance
- Setting
- 1970s, high-security prison and improvised football field
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