Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A remake of 1974's The Longest Yard, it stars Adam Sandler as a washed-up former professional American football quarterback who goes to prison and is forced to assemble a team to play against the guards. The film co-stars Chris Rock, James Cromwell, Nelly, William Fichtner and Burt Reynolds, who played Sandler's role in the original.
William Edward Fichtner [1] (born November 27, 1956) [2] is an American actor. Born in New York , he started his career with supporting appearances in Virtuosity (1994), Heat and Strange Days (both, 1995).
Portal:American football/Selected film/1 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 Steelers of the NFL, who is forced to form a team from the prison inmates to play football against their guards.
The Longest Yard is a 1974 American prison sports comedy-drama film directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Tracy Keenan Wynn, based on a story by producer Albert S. Ruddy, and starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad and James Hampton. The film was released as The Mean Machine in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
Paul Schrader (director); William Wisher, Caleb Carr (screenplay); Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown, Julian Wadham, Israel Aduramo, Andrew French, Eddie Osei, Antonie Kamerling, Mary Beth Hurt: 27: The Longest Yard: Paramount Pictures / Columbia Pictures / MTV Films / Happy Madison Productions
William Fichtner is boarding AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe. The Mom and Prison Break vet has joined The Talamasca (working title), the third series in the network’s expanding franchise.
He was in a series of supporting roles that referred to earlier performances: Without a Paddle (2004), a riff on his role in Deliverance, The Longest Yard (2005), a remake of his 1974 succcess with Adam Sandler playing Reynolds' old role (while Reynolds played the Michael Conrad part from the original); and The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) as Boss ...
The Longest Yard, 122 Fifth St., West Des Moines, is closing July 10 after 16 years of business.