Friday Night Lights Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

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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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Friday Night Lights.

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  Billy Bob Thornton

  The Electric State, The Baytown Outlaws

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  Tim McGraw

  The Shack, Tomorrowland

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  Lucas Black

  Unsung Hero, Legion

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  Derek Luke

  Captain America: The First Avenger, Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail

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  Lee Thompson Young

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  Connie Britton

  The Life List, Zero Day (limited series)

Crew Behind the Film

The Friday Night Lights behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Peter Berg last directed American Primeval (Limited Series) and Spenser Confidential. The film's writer David Aaron Cohen last wrote American Underdog and Speed Kills.

Director

Peter Berg

Screenwriters

David Aaron Cohen
Peter Berg

Producer

Brian Grazer

Production Details

What we know about the Friday Night Lights movie production.

Production Updates for Friday Night Lights

Dec 2004

Completed

Changed Friday Night Lights movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

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