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thematic issues, sexual content, language, some teen drinking, and rough sports action
Plot: What's the story about?
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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Who stars in Friday Night Lights: Cast List
Eagle Eye, Faster
Tomorrowland, The Blind Side
Unsung Hero, Furious 7
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Captain America: The First Avenger
The Life List, Angels Sing
Who's making Friday Night Lights: Crew List
A look at the Friday Night Lights behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Peter Berg last directed Spenser Confidential and Mile 22. The film's writer David Aaron Cohen last wrote American Underdog and Speed Kills.
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Production: What we know about Friday Night Lights?
Filming Timeline
- 2004 - December: The film was set to Completed status.
Friday Night Lights Release Date: When was the film released?
Friday Night Lights was a release in 2004 on Friday, October 8, 2004. There were 5 other movies released on the same date, including Primer, Around the Bend and Taxi.
Friday Night Lights DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: When was the film released?
Friday Night Lights was released on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 .