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User Rating:
6.3/10   11,507 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Tracy Keenan Wynn (earlier screenplay "The Longest Yard")
Charlie Fletcher (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
26 December 2001 (UK) more
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Not Your Usual Suspects more
Plot:
A soccer star jailed for assault leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards. full summary | add synopsis
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Top class Brit flick! more (72 total)

Cast

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Vinnie Jones ... Danny Meehan

David Kelly ... Doc
David Hemmings ... Governor

Ralph Brown ... Burton

Vas Blackwood ... Massive
Robbie Gee ... Trojan
Geoff Bell ... Ratchett
John Forgeham ... Charlie Sykes
Sally Phillips ... Tracey

Danny Dyer ... Billy the Limpet

Jason Flemyng ... Bob Likely

Jason Statham ... Monk
Martin Wimbush ... Z
David Reid ... Barman
David Cropman ... Second Barman
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and some violence.
Runtime:
99 min
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Continuity: In two scenes immediately before he is asked by Danny, whether he wants to play with them, the monk can be seen participating in the training. more
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Danny Meehan: I'll tell you something, I didn't start off out as a youngster looking to sell my country out.
Massive: None of us planned to be here, mate.
Chiv: But you're forgetting one thing. You're a hero in Scotland.
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Spoofed in She's the Man (2006) more
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Baggy Trousers more

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21 out of 24 people found the following review useful.
Top class Brit flick!, 23 January 2004
Author: graboidinator from Swindon, England

You simply cannot put this movie down, a great all British cast and a great all British sport, being British and a great lover of Manchester United, i was up for this film and it didn't diasappoint me in the slightest. Vinnie Jones was brilliant as Danny Meehan and Jason Statham as the 'Monk' was simply classic vintage stuff. The match is what the watchers of this film want to see and it is fantastically constructed, just one tip of advice, don't p*** of the 'Monk'

10/10 stars, classic stuff

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