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Friday Night Lights

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Friday Night Lights
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PG13,1hr 57min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Released:
October 8, 2004
Director:
Peter Berg
Distributor:
Universal Pictures
Starring:
Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Lucas Black  ...more
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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Derek Armstrong
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Friday Night Lights was billed as a "different kind of sports movie," but the film's greatest departure from brethren like Remember the Titans and Varsity Blues is stylistic, not substantive. Peter Berg's herky-jerky camera might bring in more indie-minded viewers than your typical football movie, but it adds little extra legitimacy to the standard components: the obsessive heartland town, the caustic ... Full Review
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Billy Bob Thornton
Coach Gary Gaines, Coach Gaines
Derek Luke
James "Boobie" Miles, Boobie Miles
Lucas Black
Mike Winchell
Jay Hernandez
Brian Chavez
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