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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.
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User Rating:
7.2/10   19,588 votes
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Directors:
Writers (WGA):
Buzz Bissinger (book)
David Aaron Cohen (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
8 October 2004 (USA) more
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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:
1 win & 4 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(56 articles)
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The Best Sports movie ever made more (270 total)

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Also Known As:
Friday Night Lights (Spain) (DVD title) [es]
Friday Night Lights (Italy) [it]
Friday Night Lights (Finland) [fi]
Friday Night Lights - Touchdown am Freitag (Germany) [de]
Juego de viernes en la noche (Argentina) (video title) [es]
Kynigontas to oneiro (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Les lumières du vendredi soir (Canada: French title) [fr]
Luces de viernes noche (Spain) [es]
Ston pyreto tis doxas (Greece) (TV title) [el]
Swiatla stadionów (Poland) [pl]
Tudo Pela Vitória (Brazil) [pt]
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for thematic issues, sexual content, language, some teen drinking and rough sports action.
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118 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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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
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Live-action game sequences from the 2003 Permian High School football season are interspersed throughout the film. Director Peter Berg matched the uniforms and on-field jersey numbers for acted sequences so that the live clips would blend. Game sequences were shot on location at Ratliff Stadium in Odessa and the Astrodome in Houston. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Chavez and Billingsly are eating burritos in front of the convenient store and the police officer pulls up, Billingsly's window is up/down/up between shots. more
Quotes:
Ivory Christian: This is our team! more
Movie Connections:
References "Hawaii Five-O" (1968) more
Soundtrack:
Shoot for Thrills more

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49 out of 77 people found the following review 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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