Friday Night Lights
Based on the famous book of H.G Pissenger, this movie chronicles the life in a small town of Odessa, Texas, where people struggle against racial discrimination and economic depression they have, but they have only one hope of improving their life, by winning the football national competition.
1 January 1955, USA
6 March 1967, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
16 November 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 June 1972, Dallas, Texas, USA
10 January 1980, Galveston, Texas, USA
24 December 1953, USA
29 July 1989, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA
August 8, 1983 in Houston, Texas, USA
1 May 1967, Delhi, Louisiana, USA
February 02, 2009
Friday Night Lights is a feel-good movie, but it's not real. It's a hard-hitting Hallmark greeting card. It's no wonder it appealed to Larry King %u2014 it's safe, easy, conventional, and feigns incisiveness.July 31, 2008
Had Billy Bob Thornton not been so good in so many films, people would be talking about this as his greatest role.April 14, 2007
The script spends at least as much time exploring the psychologies of the young players and the problems they face at home as it does rallying the audience behind their efforts on the field.December 24, 2010
So much more than a football movie.November 11, 2004
Nuance typifies both Mr. Thornton's highly calibrated performance and the film's absence of unnecessary underlining.June 03, 2016
It succeeds best as a sadly iconic portrayal of America's love affair with Texas high school football.October 19, 2004
Substitutes slick, cynical point-scoring for insight.March 26, 2007
A heart-pounding big-screen treatment that captures all the action of a tumultuous season while showing the emotional toll on the players.October 30, 2009
What Friday Night Lights offers is the perspective that, for the people and young players caught up in this whirlwind, football simultaneously means everything and ultimately nothing.June 24, 2006
The affecting, gruelling result is less a document of recreational sport than one of obligation and ordeal.October 12, 2004
Friday Night Lights is the real deal, a grim, in-your-face expose of one West Texas school's fanatical sports program.November 01, 2007
Few films have shown so powerfully the slashing double edge of sports fever.