| | Friday Night Lights HD-DVD
| Category | HD-DVD DVDs, Dramas Movies, High School Experiences Videos, Small Town Life, Football Players | | Starring | Billy Bob Thornton, Tim McGraw, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Lee Thompson Young, Lee Jackson | | Director | Peter Berg | | Composer | Explosions in the Sky | | Costume Designer | Susan Matheson | | Director of Photography | Tobias Schliessler | | Editor | David Rosenbloom, Colby Parker, Jr. | | Executive Producer | John Cameron, James Whitaker | | Producer | Brian Grazer | | Production Designer | Sharon Seymour | | Screenwriter | Peter Berg, David Cohen | | Source Writer | H.G. Bissinger |
The true story of the 1988 football season of the Permian High Panthers of Odessa, Texas. In small town Texas, the entire community lives and dies with its local high school football team. The town shuts down on Friday nights and everyone goes to the games. During the 1988 season, the Panthers struggle with ongoing personal conflicts on their way through the state playoffs. Each game is one more fleeting moment of the high point of their lives. Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez. Based 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 façade. 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. THEATRICAL RELEASE: OCTOBER 8, 2004 Friday Night Lights Reviews: "The movie's football scenes are both realistic and exciting, with genuine moments of suspense
-- Chris Cronis, Premiere "Imbued with the aching sadness of an end-of-summer's evening, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS has more in common with Peter Bogdanovich's THE LAST PICTURE SHOW...than other American football films..."
-- Ali Jaafar, Sight and Sound "[With] hard-tackling action, this is a solid effort from actor-turned-director Peter Berg."
-- Andrew Sumner, Uncut "[A] stringent, stirring real-life drama....Directed with smart, documentary-style briskness..."-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly "One of the best football movies ever, NIGHTS in the end celebrates the game."-- Mike Clark, USA Today "FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is uplifting and troubling, partly because it is more honest than most sports movies about the high cost and short life span of high school football glory."-- A. O. Scott, New York Times "The FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS team has invested a lot of energy in the authenticity of the on-field action that dominates the film."-- Kenneth Turan, USA Today "Thornton gets inside the coach's skin. It's a subtle, soulful performance..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Friday Night Lights | List Price | $19.98 (You save $5.39) | | Studio | Universal Studios Home Video | | Orig Year | 2004 | | All Time Sales Rank |  93270  | | CD Universe Part number | 7106996 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 08, 2006 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | thematic issues, sexual content, language, some teen drinking, and rough sports action | | Running Time | 118 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color |
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Friday night lights is not your typical sports movie. Excellent story on the pressure of high school football players in Texas to uphold family & community tradition.
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 The BEST!!!
The best football movie I've ever seen! Very powerful and emotional, a must see!
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 LIGHTS OUT!
Not the best sports movie I've ever seen, but it's decent. The last half hour is good, the rest of the movie
is pretty boring.
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An A-list football movie!!
Friday Night Lights is a truthful and superb football film. You can feel the intensity on the field, you can see it through the vibrant and kenetic editing style, and the best part of Tim McGraw's performance is you don't know you're watching Tim MrGraw. The film's soundtrack is haunting and features an echoing guitar that sweeps through the filmscape like a warm texas wind; and then you're punched by sudden flares of rock when you watch the players take the field for their games. Billy Bob Thornton Stars as a coach-under-seige who wants his team of young players to be great by showing them they can be perfect inside. I'm not a football fan but I love football movies. See this film! It's one of the finest football movies ever made!!
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Ya all need to get out and buy this movie. This here is some extreme football drama. I loved it! Its action packed with a lot of suprises. It is also a tear jerker if ya all are some true athletes who know what being a player is all about then youll understand.
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Friday Night Lights DVD HD
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Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround Sound Plus 5.1 - English, French, Spanish
Subtitles - English SDH, French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: Peter Berg - Director, Buzz Bissinger - Screenwriter
Featurette:
1. "Action Packed Deleted Scenes (10 Scenes)"
2. "Peter Berg Discusses a Scene in the Movie"
3. "Player CAM"
4. "Tim McGraw: Off the Stage"
5. "The Story of the 1988 Permisan Panthers"
6. "Gridiron Grads"
7. "Behind the Lights"
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