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Friday Night Lights, Movie Review this is a sports picture at its very finest. Unlike subjectively similar movies, director Peter Berg gives us a reason to watch his film. Much like a winning football team that would rather the stadium lights not go down, the audience is disgusted when the theater lights pour in on them come the end credits. This is an absolute must see movie where “Friday Night Lights” is a true winner. It’s a motion picture touchdown that holds a significant message and allows the audience to feel what every football player feels when they step onto the field. A television series of the same name premiered on October 3, 2006 on NBC.
Cast
Billy Bob Thornton as Coach Gary Gaines
Lucas Black as Mike Winchell
Garrett Hedlund as Don Billingsley
Derek Luke as James “Boobie” Miles
Jay Hernandez as Brian Chavez
Lee Jackson III as Ivory Christian
Lee Thompson Young as Chris Comer
Tim McGraw as Charles Billingsley
Connie Britton as Sharon Gaines
Amber Heard as Maria
Julius Tennon as Coach Freddie James
“Friday Night Lights” Movie Review
You don’t have to like sports movies to enjoy “Friday Night Lights”. You don’t even have to be a fan of the game. This film will captivate you regardless of which side you stand on as the viewer. It’s a powerful, enduring masterpiece that sticks with us long after witnessing its glory. This is a sports picture at its very finest. Unlike subjectively similar movies, director Peter Berg gives us a reason to watch his film. He inspires us, using every ounce of his screenplay to win over his audience. It manages to move past common clichés, taking a unique approach to this widely used playbook that is the sports-drama concept. Much like a winning football team that would rather the stadium lights not go down, the audience is disgusted when the theater lights pour in on them come the end credits.
Berg doesn’t just work the characters into the story, he works the story around the characters. There is a reason these people love the game. Whether its problems at home, torn relationships or failing class, when the players step on to the football field…they have a reason to live. Berg lets the audience know this.
The camera work has a lot to do with the effect “Friday Night Lights” has on the audience. It captures every gripping moment, every step the characters make, every powerful line of dialogue and it molds them into the very best sports movie that has ever been made.
“Friday Night Lights” is a true winner. It’s a motion picture touchdown that holds a significant message and allows the audience to feel what every football player feels when they step onto the field. This is an absolute must see!
Odessa, Texas, is a small, town in Texas. Racially divided and economically dying, there is one night that gives the town something to live for: Friday Night. The Permian Panthers have a big winning tradition in Texas high school football, led by QB Mike Winchell and superstar tailback Boobie Miles, but all is not well, as Boobie suffers a career-ending injury in the first game of the season. Hope is lost among citizens in Odessa, and for the team, but Coach Gary Gaines, who believes that “Perfection is being able to look your friends in the eye and know you did everything you could not to let them down”, is somehow able to help the team rise up from the ashes and make a huge season comeback. Now on their way to state, the Panthers must go out and be perfect, because they may never matter this much for the rest of their lives. Written by Zac Abrams
A straight arrow coach leads his team to the 1988 Texas state semifinals in the west Texas city of Odessa, where high school football is king. Expectations of classmates, coaches, family, and community members exact a toll on the athletes central to the story. Economic and racial undertones pervade this adaptation of H.G. Bissinger’s book by the same name. Written by David S. Johnson {davidsjohnson@bigfoot.com}
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 failure. But when the team loses its star tailback in the first game of the season, hopes seem dashed, and MOJO goes into an early tailspin. Everyone is ready to hang coach Gaines in effigy, and the team is left for dead. But miraculously, coach Gaines pulls the team together, and MOJO makes a now-unlikely run into the state playoffs.
Friday Night Lights is the 2004 drama film that documents the coach and players of a high school football team and the Texas city of Odessa that supports and is obsessed with them. The book on which it was based, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, was authored by H. G. Bissinger and follows the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team as they made a run towards the state championship. A television series of the same name premiered on October 3, 2006 on NBC. This movie ranked number 37 on Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 50 Best High School Movies. The release of the film saw it premiere in Franklin, Tennessee.
Cast
Billy Bob Thornton as Coach Gary Gaines
Lucas Black as Mike Winchell
Garrett Hedlund as Don Billingsley
Derek Luke as James “Boobie” Miles
Jay Hernandez as Brian Chavez
Lee Jackson III as Ivory Christian
Lee Thompson Young as Chris Comer
Tim McGraw as Charles Billingsley
Connie Britton as Sharon Gaines
Amber Heard as Maria
Julius Tennon as Coach Freddie James
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