|
Year of U.S. Release: 2004
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez, Tim McGraw, Lucas Black, Derek Luke, Lee Thompson Young, Connie Britton.
Director: Peter Berg Screenwriter(s): David Aaron Cohen, Peter Berg Producer(s): Brian Grazer Distributor: Universal Pictures
Genre(s): Drama, Historical, Teen, Sports Runtime: 1 hr. 57 min. U.S. Release Date: October 08, 2004
U.S. DVD Release Date: January 18, 2005
U.S. Box Office Total:
Rated for thematic issues, sexual content, language, some teen drinking, and rough sports action.
|  |
Plot Summary: | | |
From Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer and Imagine Entertainment and based on the best-selling book about high school football by H.G. Bissinger, ''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. ''Friday Night Lights'' captures the frenzy of a small town that reveres its school team and their weekly games.
|
Similar Movies: | |
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington.
In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures... read more
Year of the Dog (2007)
Molly Shannon, Peter Sarsgaard, Regina King, John C. Reilly.
The story centers on Peggy, a happy-go-lucky secretary who lives alone with her beloved dog Pencil. But when Pencil unexpectedly dies, Peggy embarks on a journey of trans... read more
Mirrors (2008)
Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Cameron Boyce, Erica Gluck.
A man is head of security at a department store plagued by unexplained deaths The store is also the target of demonstrators wanting compensation for an earlier s... read more
Munich (2005)
Geoffrey Rush, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz.
The film recounts the dramatic story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre—... read more
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Benedict Cumberbatch.
Two ferociously ambitious sisters, Mary and Anne Boleyn, were rivals for the bed and heart of the 16th century English king Henry VIII. The elder, Mary, bore two bastard ... read more
|
| |
|