The read
A Balasaur Score of 54 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes 31%, Metacritic 48/100. Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do. Most of the 3,223 2000s drama movies in this catalog score higher. Streaming on Prime, Paramount+, and Tubi.
Synopsis
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
3,781 audience votes
Key crew
- Teddy CastellucciOriginal Music Composer
- Sheldon TurnerScreenplay
- Peter SegalDirector
Cast
- Adam SandlerPaul Crewe
- Chris RockCaretaker
- James CromwellWarden Hazen
- NellyMegget
- Michael IrvinDeacon Moss
- Bob SappSwitowski
- William FichtnerCaptain Knauer
- Cloris LeachmanLynette
- Courteney CoxLena
- Terry CrewsCheeseburger Eddy
- Burt ReynoldsCoach Nate Scarborough
- Tracy MorganMs. Tucker
