Friday Night Lights Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Last modified: Dec. 20, 2008

Friday Night Lights

Director: Peter Berg

Starring: Billy Bob Thornton • Tim McGraw • Lucas Black • Derek Luke • Lee Thompson Young

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 57 m

67% WILL SEE 33% WON'T SEE

Plot: 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.

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A look at Friday Night Lights behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Peter Berg last helmed American Primeval (Limited Series) and Spenser Confidential. The film's writer David Aaron Cohen last penned American Underdog and Speed Kills.

Dec 2004

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Parent Rating: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for thematic issues, sexual content, language, some teen drinking, and rough sports action
Runtime: 1 hr, 57 m
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Language: English

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Friday Night Lights was released in on Friday, October 8 , 2004. There were five other movies released on the same date, including Taxi, Raise Your Voice and Vera Drake.