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Friday Night Lights
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PG13,1hr 57min
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October 8, 2004
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Universal Pictures
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Few films have shown so powerfully the slashing double edge of sports fever. Full Review
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Featured Cast
Coach Gary Gaines, Coach Gaines
James "Boobie" Miles, Boobie Miles
Mike Winchell
Brian Chavez
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