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Friday Night Lights
In order to make their town a good one and overcome all the obstacles and challenges they have, according to racial discrimination and economic depression they suffer from, a football coach, does his best and struggles against winning the football national champion, the thing that will lead to a great changes.
1 January 1955, USA
10 February 1974, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, USA
10 January 1980, Galveston, Texas, USA
1 February 1984, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
27 September 1980, Austin, Texas, USA
22 April 1986, Austin, Texas, USA
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.
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.
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.
June 03, 2016
It succeeds best as a sadly iconic portrayal of America's love affair with Texas high school football.
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.
November 11, 2004
Nuance typifies both Mr. Thornton's highly calibrated performance and the film's absence of unnecessary underlining.
December 24, 2010
So much more than a football movie.
November 01, 2007
Few films have shown so powerfully the slashing double edge of sports fever.
October 19, 2004
Substitutes slick, cynical point-scoring for insight.
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.
June 24, 2006
The affecting, gruelling result is less a document of recreational sport than one of obligation and ordeal.
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.
