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Friday Night Lights (2004)
Released By: Universal Pictures   Rating: PG-13   In Theaters: 10/8/2004
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Studio: Universal Pictures
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Berg
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.fridaynightlightsmovie.com/
Theatrical Release: 10/8/2004
Home Video Release: 1/18/2005
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Jay Hernandez, Derek Luke, Garrett Hedlund
Published ID: 999299
UPC: 025192547720, 025192547621, 025192862021, 025193002020, 025195055604, 025192033537, 025192040412, 025192040429,
Plot: 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
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Friday Night Lights
Added 10/9/2009

Loved it! My grandson was a lineman in this picture!

REALLY!

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Word.
Added 8/29/2009

Good movie. Missed some key points from the book like the academic scandal which only adds to the drama in the title game. Overall good movie though
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Awsome Football Flick!!!
Added 6/2/2009

It certainly started out as just another football film (though over-directed with a hyper-active camera)...the parties, the sexual shenanigans, the over-the-top characters. I was ready to pan the film.
But then it heated up. Once the season started, and the football action became the centerpiece, this film shined. The characters were compelling and you really felt for them and their individual situations.

I am not a Billy Bob Thorton fan, but I was pleasantly surprised by his controlled performance. Too often the coaches in football movies are completely over the top. Thorton had the strength to get on people - but he never over did it. It was a football coach. And the movie ended on a strong note. The half-time speech Thorton gives during the final game is something that gives a former football player goose bumps. It really encapsulates what its truly like to be a part of a football TEAM...and how powerful that experience can be.

I have seen movies like "All the Right Moves", "The Program", "Varsity Blues" and the laughable "Any Given Sunday". NONE of them can hold a candle to this movie. Any football player or fan needs to watch this film...the best football movie I have ever watched.


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Friday Night Lights - Blu-ray Info
Added 4/9/2009

Version: U.S.A / Universal / Region Free
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / AACS / High Profile 4.1
Running time: 1:57:39
Movie size: 38,83 GB
Disc size: 45,15 GB
Total bit rate: 44.01 Mbps
Average video bit rate: 35.86 Mbps

DTS-HD Master Audio English 3986 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3986 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
DTS Audio French 768 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit
DTS Audio Spanish 768 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / Dolby Surround

Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Number of chapters: 32

#Audio Commentary
#Deleted Scenes (SD - 22 minutes)
#Featurettes
--Peter Berg Discusses a Scene in the Movie (SD - 1 minute)
--Player Cam (SD - 4 minutes)
--Tim McGraw: Off the Stage (SD - 6 minutes)
--The Story of the 1988 Permian Panthers (SD - 23 minutes)
--Behind the Lights (SD - 26 minutes)
--Gridiron Grads (SD - 14 minutes)
#BD-Live enabled

1 out of 2 people found this helpful.
Well Made Movie
Added 1/30/2009

Friday Night Lights has a more refined development of the key characters than what you usually see in HS sports movies. It does a great job of exposing how they deal with challenges and setbacks, with some memorable scenes.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Friday Night Lights
Added 10/9/2009

Loved it! My grandson was a lineman in this picture!

REALLY!

0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Word.
Added 8/29/2009

Good movie. Missed some key points from the book like the academic scandal which only adds to the drama in the title game. Overall good movie though
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Awsome Football Flick!!!
Added 6/2/2009

It certainly started out as just another football film (though over-directed with a hyper-active camera)...the parties, the sexual shenanigans, the over-the-top characters. I was ready to pan the film.
But then it heated up. Once the season started, and the football action became the centerpiece, this film shined. The characters were compelling and you really felt for them and their individual situations.

I am not a Billy Bob Thorton fan, but I was pleasantly surprised by his controlled performance. Too often the coaches in football movies are completely over the top. Thorton had the strength to get on people - but he never over did it. It was a football coach. And the movie ended on a strong note. The half-time speech Thorton gives during the final game is something that gives a former football player goose bumps. It really encapsulates what its truly like to be a part of a football TEAM...and how powerful that experience can be.

I have seen movies like "All the Right Moves", "The Program", "Varsity Blues" and the laughable "Any Given Sunday". NONE of them can hold a candle to this movie. Any football player or fan needs to watch this film...the best football movie I have ever watched.


0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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