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Mean Machine is a British film of genre Drama released in USA on 26 december 2001 with David Kelly
Mean Machine (2001)
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Add to a movie listMean 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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Danny "The Mean Machine" Meehan (Vinnie Jones), a former captain of the England national football team who was banned from football for life for fixing a match between England and Germany (the England Football Team's greatest European rivals), is sentenced to three years in Longmarsh prison for assaulting two police officers after a long drinking session and driving recklessly to a local bar.Actors
David Kelly
(Doc)
Vinnie Jones
(Danny Meehan)
David Hemmings
(Governor)
Jamie Sives
(Chiv)
Ralph Brown
(Burton)
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