It's Not Just About Football, It's About Pride Inside!
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.
- 6.2
- 2001
- Released
- 1h 39m
Vinnie Jones
Danny Meehan
David Kelly
Doc
David Hemmings
Governor
Ralph Brown
Burton
Vas Blackwood
Massive
Robbie Gee
Trojan
Geoff Bell
Ratchett
John Forgeham
Sykes
Sally Phillips
Tracey
Danny Dyer
Billy the Limpet
Jason Flemyng
Bob Likely
Jason Statham
Monk
Martin Wimbush
ZDavid Cropman
Second BarmanTim Perrin
PolicemanPaul Mari
Policeman
Nicholas Moss
Hayter
Stephen Walters
Nitro
Andrew Grainger
Ketch
Jamie Sives
Chiv
Adam Fogerty
Mouse
Rocky Marshall
CigsElwin 'Chopper' David
Jerome McFife
Omid Djalili
Raj
Released
en
$2,750,000.00
$7,310,206.00
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- #sports
- #prison warden
- #amateur football (soccer)
- #remake
- #football (soccer)
- #football (soccer) coach
Reviews
1-0 to the Mean Machine. Mean Machine is an English reworking of Robert Aldrich's 1974 beefcake Burt Reynolds starrer, The Longest Yard. Substituting Gridiron for Soccer, director Barry Skolnick, along with his roll call of British "faces", is only aiming for one market. That of the footie worshipping clan that primarily resides within the United Kingdom. Very much a long way from competi