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Friday Night Lights (2004) -- Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.
Friday Night Lights (2004) -- Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.
Friday Night Lights (2004) -- Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.

Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   18,631 votes
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Directors:
Peter Berg
Josh Pate
Writers (WGA):
Buzz Bissinger (book)
David Aaron Cohen (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
8 October 2004 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Drama | Sport more
Tagline:
Hope comes alive more
Plot:
Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 4 nominations more
User Comments:
The Best Sports movie ever made more

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for thematic issues, sexual content, language, some teen drinking and rough sports action.
Runtime:
118 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Certification:
Iceland:LH | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Australia:M (tv rating) | South Korea:12 | Malaysia:U | Ireland:12A | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:12A (original rating) | UK:12 (video rating) (2005) | USA:PG-13 | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-11 | Australia:PG
Filming Locations:
Abilene, Texas, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
There are only two title cards at the beginning of the movie. The first is "The following story is based on the 1988 West Texas football season." The second is the movie title. The cast and crew are not shown until the end of the movie. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: At the first football game (against Marshall), the logo on the bass drum in the marching band is from the 2004 Rose Parade - you can make out the date and city on the bottom of the drum. more
Quotes:
Boobie Miles: Go on, go on and be perfect more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "HBO First Look: Friday Night Lights (#11.18)" (2004) more
Soundtrack:
Hawaii Five-O Theme more

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48 out of 76 people found the following comment useful:-
The Best Sports movie ever made, 10 October 2004
8/10
Author: espenshade55

This movie was phenomenal in every way. It had incredible performances under a great director with a fantastic story to back it up.

It tells the story of a high school football team in Texas through the course of their 1988 season. Billy Bob Thorton played the coach of the team and give the best performance I've ever seen him give. The film was directed by Peter Berg who gave it a unique film style. He managed to tell this story in a very beautiful way.

Tim McGraw gives a great debut performance of an ex-high school football player who has become the drunken abusive father of one of the players currently on the team. He was almost unrecodnizable in this role and he portrayed it well. He, and the rest of the cast for that matter deserve a lot of credit.

This is the only football film I have ever seen that has done justice to what it feels like to play football in high school. I played under Friday night lights myself, that time of my life ended just a year ago and it still holds fresh in my memory. And because of that I can tell you how accurately this film portray's the sense of brotherhood and friendship that is felt by every team, at least every good football team.

Whether you ever played under Friday night lights yourself or not anyone should be able to appreciate this film.

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