Mean Machine

About Mean Machine

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.

Mean Machine is a 2001 comedy film directed by Barry Skolnick. Its themes are football (soccer), prison warden, football (soccer) coach, and amateur football (soccer).

Vinnie Jones appears as Danny Meehan, David Kelly as Doc, David Hemmings as Governor, and Ralph Brown as Burton. It runs 99 minutes and was released in December 2001.

The screenplay is by Andrew Day and Charlie Fletcher.

The Longest Yard, Lessons of a Dream, and The Wild Soccer Bunch 2 make useful companions to Mean Machine, all filed under prison and sports. TMDB voters put it at 6.3 out of 10 across 667 votes and it carries a R rating.