A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
The Longest Yard has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of The Longest Yard (1974)
By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 20 Jan 1989
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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 11 Mar 1978
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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 06 Sep 2003
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The Longest Yard was released in 1974 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 68 reviews, giving The Longest Yard (1974) an average rating of 66%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 64%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 54%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Longest Yard than critics were.
With a score of 66%, The Longest Yard is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1974, which stands at 60%.
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