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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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Football (or soccer) is the most popular sport in the world, but you couldn’t tell based on the number of films dealing with it. It would be be easy to to blame undue influence of Hollywood on this, but the real reason could be found in the features of the sport itself that make it difficult to bring excitement and drama of real time game to big screen. One of the very few films that got football right is *Mean Mach…More
