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Based on H.G. Bissinger's account of the town of Odessa, Texas and its football team, the Permian High School Panthers. While the team are successful, its members are getting frustrated with the slow pace of the town, and doubt whether they have any real future there.

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ProducerBrian Grazer

EAN5050582362411

eBay Product ID (ePID)46961345

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleFriday Night Lights

ActorLucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Jay Hernandez, Derek Luke, Billy Bob Thornton

DirectorPeter Berg

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

Release Year2005

FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles, Deleted Scenes\Interview With Director Peter Berg\Feature Commentary With Writer Buzz Bissinger And Director Peter Berg\Featurette On The 1988 Permian Panthers\On Stage With Tim McGraw

Aspect Ratio1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Run Time113 Mins

GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure

Additional Product Features

Certificate12A/12

Number of Discs1

ReviewsEmpire - The best sports movie for years., The Sun - This is a must-see sporting classic..., The Observer - Exciting, emotional, edge-of-the-seat drama.

AuthorH.G. Bissinger

Additional InformationBased on the best-selling book by H.G. Bissinger, Peter Berg's gritty, powerful drama tells the true story of a small Texas town in which high school football is the only thing that matters. Set in 1988, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS opens on the first day of practice for the Odessa Permian Panthers. Under intense pressure and scrutiny from the town's residents, head coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) nonetheless maintains a calm facade. His star player, Boobie Miles (Derek Luke), is a running back with unlimited potential, but the rest of the team is undersized and lacking killer instinct--especially quarterback Mike Winchell (Lucas Black), who's shy and short of confidence, and Don Billingsley (Garrett Hedlund), who is tormented by his father (Tim McGraw) for being too soft. When Boobie goes down on opening day with a career threatening knee injury, the season appears to be over. But Gaines won't give up, and neither will the rest of his feisty players. Billy Bob Thornton delivers another outstanding performance in Berg's impassioned drama, as do the film's young actors (most notably Luke, Black, and Hedlund). Tobias Schliessler's fuel-injected photography and Explosion in the Sky's electrifying score make FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS an even more spectacular movie-going experience.

Movie/TV TitleFriday Night Lights

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1