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...