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MEAN MACHINE (AKA THE LONGEST YARD)
(1975)
Certification15
Our Rating
Ex-pro quarterback Paul Crewe, residing in the local state prison, is coerced into putting together a football team by the warden, who wants to see his prison guard team win the national championship, but, though the match is supposed to be little more than a walk over for the guards, how can you truly persuade a dozen hardened, warden hating, criminals to lie down and take a beating? Mean Machine is leaner, meaner, harder and funnier than the recent remake starring Vinnie Jones, oh....and the c
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SUNSHINE (HUNGARIAN EPIC)
(2000)
Certification15
Our Rating
An epic family drama spanning three generations of a Jewish family, who moved from a rural village to the city, became wealthy, respected, bourgeois and/or radicalised and Hungarianised, set against a backdrop of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, World War 1, the rise of fascism, the Holocaust and the Communist era. A tour-de-force performance by Ralph Fiennes in various reincarnations, especially as the character who won a fencing gold medal for Hungary in the 1936 Olympics, in th
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Certification12
Our Rating
Paul "Wrecking" Crewe is the (unlikely) star American football player thrown into the klink after a drunken blow-out. The dodgy warden enlists Paul to put together a team of inmates to play the guards, apparently not aware of the prisoners' potential desire for a bit of payback. A remake of Burt Reynold's Mean Machine, this watered down version of the brutal original is a pretty pointless time-filler.
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