Mean Machine is a 2001 British comedy-drama film directed by Barry Skolnick. It stars former footballer Vinnie Jones. The film is an adaptation of the 1974 American film The Longest Yard, featuring association football rather than American football. It also reunites most of the cast who have starred in the Guy Ritchie blockbusters Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Danny Meehan, a former captain of the English national football team who was banned from football for life for fixing a match between England and Germany, is sentenced to three years in Longmarsh prison for assaulting... two police officers after a lengthy drinking session and driving wildly to a local bar. Once inside, he is promptly beaten by the prison guards for misbehaving, and is subsequently approached by the prison governor. The governor offers Meehan a job as coach of the prison wardens' football team; the guards who are members of the team, tell Meehan not to accept and threaten to maltreat him if he does so. Meehan declines the offer, and instead offers to train a team consisting of other inmates, who will take on the wardens in a practice match.
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| Release date: | December 26, 2001 |
| Directed by: | Barry Skolnick |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 101 Minutes |
| Producer: | Matthew Vaughn |
| Editor: | Eddie Hamilton, Dayn Williams |
| Music by: | John Murphy, Marilyn Manson |
| Cinematography: | Alex Barber |
| Screenplay by: | Chris Baker, Andrew Day, Charlie Fletcher |
| Genre: | Comedy |