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Oct 8, 2004 · The movie demonstrates the power of sports to involve us; we don't live in Odessa and are watching a game played 16 years ago, and we get all wound up. "Friday Night Lights" reminded me of another movie filmed in West Texas: "The Last Picture Show," set 50 years ago. In that one, after the local team loses another game, the players catch flak ...
Oct 8, 2004 · Nov 1, 2007 Full Review James Croot Stuff.co.nz Friday Night Lights still remains one of the most entertaining and engrossing sports movies of the past two decades.
- (174)
- Peter Berg
- PG-13
- Billy Bob Thornton
Our review: Parents say ( 5 ): Kids say ( 5 ): Director/co-screenwriter Peter Berg has produced a movie that has both immediacy and resonance, filled with moments of authenticity and insight. Friday Night Lights has an intentionally rough, gritty, bleached, documentary feel, but Berg is in complete control, with every shot a small gem of ...
- Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Tim Mcgraw
- Peter Berg
- Universal Pictures
Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 30, 2009. Tony Macklin Bright Lights Film Journal. Friday Night Lights is a feel-good movie, but it's not real. It's a hard-hitting Hallmark greeting card ...
Oct 8, 2004 · Friday Night Lights: Directed by Peter Berg. With Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Derek Luke. 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.
- (67K)
- Action, Drama, Sport
- Peter Berg
- 2004-10-08
Friday Night Lights is a 2004 American sports drama film co-written and directed by Peter Berg. The film follows the coach and players of a high school football team in the Texas city of Odessa. The book on which it is based, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990) by H. G. Bissinger, followed the story of the 1988 Permian High ...
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Oct 8, 2004 · The great part about the TV series was that while it was about football, of course, it was about so much more than that. It was about the characters and their daily lives and then how everyone would unite on Friday to play football. In the movie, and this is to my point about the abbreviated nature of the movie, a lot of the characterization ...
