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An acute survey of the football-obsessed heartland that succeeds as both a stirring drama and a rousing sports movie. Read critic reviews
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Friday Night Lights videos
Friday Night Lights: Official Clip - Coach Gaines on Being Perfect
Friday Night Lights: Official Clip - Boobie Goes Down
Friday Night Lights: Official Clip - You're Gonna Seriously Fly, Son
Friday Night Lights: Official Clip - Boobie Cleans Out His Locker
Friday Night Lights: Official Clip - Ivory's Pep Talk
Friday Night Lights: Official Clip - Boobie's MRI
Friday Night Lights: Official Clip - Creepy Boosters
Friday Night Lights: Official Clip - Duct Tape for Don
Friday Night Lights: Official Clip - Agony of Defeat
Friday Night Lights: Official Clip - Get Off the Field, Dad
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A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles (Derek Luke), is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.
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Rating: PG-13 (Rough Sports Action|Language|Sexual Content|Some Teen Drinking|Thematic Issues)
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Peter Berg
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Producer: Brian Grazer
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Writer: Peter Berg, David Aaron Cohen, Buzz Bissinger
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $61.2M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Universal Pictures
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Production Co: Imagine Entertainment
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Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby SRD, DTS, Surround
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Audience Reviews for Friday Night Lights
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Friday Night Lights is a brilliant sports drama that focuses heavily on its characters, which ultimately makes for Peter Berg's best film. It has emotion and teriffic acting, making for a memorable experience. It also inspired and brilliant television show, so it count as a great one in my book.
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Mike Winchell: This is for the state championship. I love all of ya'll, baby. I love all of ya'll. "Hope Comes Alive on Friday Night" As far as football movies or sports movies in general go, Friday Night Lights sets itself apart from most. I don't know if I've seen another movie that captures the emotion of high school athletics as well as Friday Night Lights did. Anyone who's ever played a high school sport knows the emotion that's involved. That last game of the season and for about 95% of the players; the last game of their lives. The State Championship sequence is highly manipulative. I'll be the first to admit that. Everything about it is manipulative. But it's undeniably well-made, emotional, and powerful. For many of the players, it is the biggest moment of their life. They aren't going to have another day where 55,000 people are screaming and their only a touchdown away from a state championship. The characters are all well developed and are all deeply moving in their own way. Billingsley can't hold on to the football, but he fights through that and ends up being one of the teams best players. Winchell is a hard working and tough quarterback who never gives up on himself or his team. Boobie is the most talented player, but also the most cocky. That is until he goes down for the season. He rallies around his team even though he can't play, and it's killing him. Hell even Billingsley's dad is moving. Yeah he's a piece of crap to his son at the start. But he grows to be a good dad at the end in a pretty emotional shot. We can't hear what he says to his son, but we really don't need to. If you love sports and know the emotions that are involved; this movie cannot be missed. It's really a spectacular look at one season and how it can affect a town in so many ways.
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Underrated as one of great sports movies ever, "Friday Night Lights" succeeds on two levels: gives you great action sequences on the field and believable characters off of it. For one, it beautifully juxtaposes the joy and pain of the feverish support for a local football team in a small town that offers no escape. On the other hand, it also contains some of the hardest-hitting football action ever committed to film. Throw some strong, in-your-face performances into the mix and you've got one of the best movies of the last ten years.
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If they do a football film on Alabama Crimson Tide then I say get Bill Thornton to play Nick Saban too. Come to think of it, a deal of football coaches look, to an extent, like Saban. I can just see a team of British scientists searching through to deepest heart of Africa and discovering a whole hidden tribe of sports-playing Africans being yelled at by a race of Nick Sabans. I can just see a whole lot of Auburn fans out there saying "I knew he was the missing link." But enough about Saban Americans, let's touch on this film, which suffers from a lack of development, some inconsistancies, a bit of a let-down and cop-out ending and slowness. I know, a slow sports movie. Crazy isn't it? In spite of this, "Friday Night Lights" features a solid soundtrack, strong characters and fantastic performances to make it an ultimately rousing drama.
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