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Mean Machine is a 2001 sports comedy film directed by Barry Skolnick and starring former footballer Vinnie Jones. The film is an adaptation of the 1974 American film The Longest Yard, featuring association football rather than American football.
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Plot
Danny "The Mean Machine" Meehan is a retired footballer and former captain of England who was banned from football for life for fixing an unspecified match they played against Germany. In the present day, after a long drinking session, he drives recklessly to a local bar where he is pursued by police. Inside the bar, when asked to take a breathalyser test, he attacks two police officers and is arrested. He is later convicted and sentenced to three years in Longmarsh prison.
Inside, his status as a celebrity immediately puts him at odds with the guards, who brutally beat him on arrival. The prison governor then pulls strings to ensure Meehan serves his sentence in Longmarsh as the head coach of the prison wardens' football team. However, Meehan declines, and instead trains a team of other convicts to play against the wardens.
