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Genres:
Drama, Sports
Language:
English
Running time:
1:57:56
Partner rating:
PG-13
Released:

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Billy Bob Thornton Coach Gary Gaines
  2. Tim McGraw Charles Billingsley
  3. Derek Luke Boobie Miles
  4. Lucas Black Mike Winchell
  5. Garrett Hedlund Don Billingsley
  6. Jay Hernandez Brian Chavez
  7. Connie Britton Sharon Gaines
  8. Lee Thompson Young Chris Corner
  9. Lee Jackson Ivory Christian
  10. Angie Bolling Booster Wife

Directors

  1. Peter Berg

Producers

  1. Brian Grazer

Writers

  1. David Aaron Cohen
  2. Peter Berg

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Friday Night Lights


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H.G. Bissinger's best-selling true-life account of a few months in the life of a high-school football team comes to the screen in this adaptation written and directed by Peter Berg. Odessa, TX, is an oil town in the western part of the state that's home to the Permian High School Panthers, the football team with the best winning record in the state. Odessa is a town with more than its share of problems; the decline of the oil business in Texas... H.G. Bissinger's best-selling true-life account of a few months in the life of a high-school football team comes to the screen in this adaptation written and directed by Peter Berg. Odessa, TX, is an oil town in the western part of the state that's home to the Permian High School Panthers, the football team with the best winning record in the state. Odessa is a town with more than its share of problems; the decline of the oil business in Texas has set the city's economy into a tailspin, and racial tensions still erupt into violence on occasion. But football is the one thing that brings all the people of Odessa together, and on Friday nights every fall, as many as 20,000 people fill Permian's football stadium to watch Coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) and his boys try to lead the team to victory. As Gaines works to build a winning team in a town where victory is prized above all else, however, his players struggle through the emotional trials common to any teenager and ponder the fact that there is little future in their hometown...and that a championship season can be as much a burden as a triumph. Friday Night Lights also stars Lucas Black, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, and country singer-turned-actor Tim McGraw.
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Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'fresh' by Rotten Tomatoes

81%Tomatometer score: 81% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Positive review
    Richard Luck, Film4 Had Billy Bob Thornton not been so good in so many films, people would be talking about this as his greatest role. Full review External link
  2. Positive review
    David Ansen, Newsweek Few films have shown so powerfully the slashing double edge of sports fever. Full review External link
  3. Positive review
    Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader A heart-pounding big-screen treatment that captures all the action of a tumultuous season while showing the emotional toll on the players. Full review External link
  4. Negative review
    Garth Franklin, Dark Horizons While the atmosphere is excellent, and the general elements all strong, the film sadly fails to give any real insight or depth in regards to explaining the hows and whys of the near fever over the... Full review External link
  5. Positive review
    Ben Walters, Time Out The affecting, gruelling result is less a document of recreational sport than one of obligation and ordeal. Full review External link
  6. Positive review
    Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine The best sports movie for years, as it's not about sport at all. Forget fears of jingoistic grandstanding, this is an un-American all-American tale that deserves attention. Full review External link

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    Friday Night Lights (10/10) Movie CLIP - Agony of Defeat (2004) HD

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