Mean Machine (film)

Mean Machine (film)
Mean Machine

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Barry Skolnick
Produced by Matthew Vaughn
Screenplay by Tracy Keenan Wynn
Charlie Fletcher
Chris Baker
Andrew Day
Story by Albert S. Ruddy
Starring Vinnie Jones
David Kelly
David Hemmings
Ralph Brown
Jason Flemyng
with Danny Dyer
and Jason Statham
as 'Monk'
Music by John Murphy
Cinematography Alex Barber
Editing by Eddie Hamilton
Dayn Williams
Studio SKA Films
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) December 26, 2001 (2001-12-26)
Running time 99 minutes
Country United Kingdom
United States
Language English
Box office $7,310,206

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.

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Plot

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; not wanting to make enemies with the other prisoners, Meehan declines, and instead offers to train a team consisting of other inmates, who will take on the wardens in a practice match.

Meehan ends up with the resident contraband dealer, Massive, as his right-hand man. He also receives advice from an elderly convict, Doc, who teaches Meehan prison lore. Meehan wins the respect of the other inmates after he attacks an officer, Mr. Ratchett, who is attacking Massive, and is then occupied with the task of training up his team of cons, including a maximum-security con named Monk (Jason Statham) a violent Scottish inmate.

At half time, the inmates' team, Mean Machine is winning 1-0, and things are going well until the governor attempts to blackmail Meehan into throwing the match. At first he puts his own interests before that of the team's, playing quite badly but as the final moments of the game tick down, he redeems himself, and uses a square-ball to fellow inmate 'Billy the Limpet'(Danny Dyer) to win the game for the cons.

Cast

The film also included a number of actors who had formerly played professional football. Charlie Hartfield, who played for Sheffield United and Swansea City, and Nevin Saroya, a former youth team player at Brentford, appeared for the prisoners' team. Footballers on the guards' team included Paul Fishenden and Brian Gayle, who both played for Wimbledon.

Production

Mean Machine was filmed from April to June 2001. Most of the prison scenes were filmed at HM Prison Oxford,[1] and the match was filmed at The Warren, the former home ground of Yeading.[2]

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