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Friday Night Lights

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In Theaters: October 8, 2004

PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Drama | 1h 57m

Friday Night Lights

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.

Based on the book by H.G. Bissinger.
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Tim McGraw, Christian Kane
Director: Peter Berg
Studio: Universal Pictures
Producer(s): Brian Grazer
Writer(s): David Aaron Cohen, Peter Berg
Official Site: www.fridaynightlightsmovie.com