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Friday Night Lights (2004)
Friday Night Lights chronicles the entire 1988 season of the Permian High Panthers of Odessa, Texas, with football players, coaches, mothers, fathers, pastors, boosters, fans and families struggling with ongoing personal conflicts while the team fights for a state championship. A town for sale, Odessa, Texas has seen better days—the financial bust evident in its boarded-up shops and broken lives. Yet one hope sustains the community where, once a week during the fall, the town and its dreams come alive beneath the dazzling and disorienting Friday night lights...when the Permian High Panthers take to the field. In a city where economic uncertainty has eroded the spirit of its inhabitants, nearly everyone seeks comfort in the religion of the Friday night ritual, where the unfulfilled dreams of an entire community are shifted onto the shoulder pads of a team of high-school athletes.
| Release Date: | October 8th, 2004 |
| MPAA Rating: | PG-13 |
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Friday Night Lights Movie Review by AJ  (4/14/2006) |
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While Friday Night Lights is by no means a sports masterpiece of Rocky proportions, and indeed it even muddles up its own historical accuracy (and that history is only 1988), it is a surprisingly well-made and enjoyable treat. It's shot like an indie but has a script that exudes Hollywood-ness; director Berg is to thank...
(complete Friday Night Lights review by AJ)
| Friday Night Lights Movie Review by Chris (8/19/2007) |
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Expectations are high for the 1988 football team at Permian "MOJO" High School in the blue-collar, football-crazy town of Odessa, Texas. MOJO is a traditional powerhouse in Texas high school football, and the community lets coach Gaines know in many not-so-subtle ways that nothing short of a state championship is a...
(complete Friday Night Lights review by Chris)
| Friday Night Lights Movie Review by James (7/31/2005) |
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Alright everyone, now I have to be honest, as a former football player this one was a bit hard for me to take, but it is a decent film.
Probably the most unbelieveable part of the movie, is how freaky and psycho the people in Texas are about high school football, but I guess it isn't that hard to believe, as these people...
(complete Friday Night Lights review by James)
| Friday Night Lights Movie Review by Salvador (3/4/2005) |
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An awesome, thoroughly moving and gripping piece of cinema. It tells the true story of a small texas high school football team as they try for the championships. It shows you what they go through as, the best thing the town has got, they try to make it through high school life and use their football abilities as a stepping...
(complete Friday Night Lights review by Salvador)
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