A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
 
"What we've got here is... failure to communicate.  Some men you just can't reach."
 
Nuff said.
 
FUN FACT:  Two hundred hard-boiled eggs were provided for one of the film's most famous sequences. Due to clever editing, Paul Newman only ate about eight altogether. The rest were consumed by the cast and crew, which led to extreme cases of flatulence the next day.