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Friday Night Lights [Fullscreen]

Friday Night Lights [Fullscreen]

Actor(s): Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund
Director(s): Peter Berg
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: PG-13
Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Watch With Your Teen, Youth Substance Use
Movie Release: 2004
DVD Release: 01/18/2005
Format: DVD - Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned
Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish
Subtitles: French, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 58 mins
Studio: Universal Studios
Total Copies: 55
Genres: Drama, Americana, Sports Drama
See Also: Friday Night Lights [Widescreen], Friday Night Lights [UMD for PSP], Friday Night Lights [HD DVD], Friday Night Lights [Widescreen] [Blu-ray], Friday Night Lights [Fullscreen], Friday Night Lights [Fullscreen], Friday Night Lights [Widescreen]

DVD 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 tensions still erupt into violence on occasion. But football is the one thing that brings all the people of Odessa together, and on Friday nights every fall, as many as 20,000 people fill Permian's football stadium to watch Coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) and his boys try to lead the team to victory. As Gaines works to build a winning team in a town where victory is prized above all else, however, his players struggle through the emotional trials common to any teenager and ponder the fact that there is little future in their hometown...and that a championship season can be as much a burden as a triumph. Friday Night Lights also stars Lucas Black, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, and country singer-turned-actor Tim McGraw. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Actors

Billy Bob Thornton - Coach Gary Gaines
Derek Luke - Boobie Miles
Jay Hernandez - Brian Chavez
Lucas Black - Mike Winchell
Garrett Hedlund - Don Billingsley


Member Movie Reviews

Betty P. (BettyP) from VICTOR, NY wrote on 2/23/2009...

0 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful.
My husband and I have become fans of the TV Series Friday Night Lights so watched the movie that started it all. It was a great movie with lots of action in the football games. It was interesting to note the difference and similarities between the movie and the series. It was fun seeing that some of the actors/actresses are the same in both. I recommend it!


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