Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.

Vinnie Jones
as Danny Meehan

David Kelly
as Doc

David Hemmings
as Governor

Ralph Brown
as Burton

Vas Blackwood
as Massive

Robbie Gee
as Trojan

Geoff Bell
as Ratchett

John Forgeham
as Sykes

Sally Phillips
as Tracey

Danny Dyer
as Billy the Limpet
John Chard
1-0 to the Mean Machine. Mean Machine is an English reworking of Robert Aldrich's 1974 beefcake Burt Reynolds starrer, The Longest Yard. Substituting Gridiron for Soccer, director Barry Skolnick, along with his roll call of British "faces", is only aiming for one market. That of the footie wor...