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Friday Night Lights
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.
2004 · Directed by Peter Berg · 118 min · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
Hope comes alive on Friday nights.
Crew
- Screenplay: David Aaron Cohen, Peter Berg
- Cinematography: Tobias A. Schliessler
- Edited by: Gabrielle Fasulo, Colby Parker, Jr., David Rosenbloom, Susan Rash
- Music: David Torn, Brian Reitzell
- Production design: Sharon Seymour
- Produced by: Brian Grazer
Cast
- Billy Bob Thornton as Coach Gary Gaines
- Lucas Black as Mike Winchell
- Garrett Hedlund as Don Billingsley
- Derek Luke as Boobie Miles
- Jay Hernandez as Brian Chavez
- Lee Jackson as Ivory Christian
- Lee Thompson Young as Chris Comer
- Tim McGraw as Charles Billingsley
- Grover Coulson as L.V. Miles
- Connie Britton as Sharon Gaines
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Imagine Entertainment, Friday Night Lights, MDBF Filmgesellschaft mbH & Company KG, Universal Pictures
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Box office: $61,255,921
- Themes: high school, based on novel or book, sports, american football, texas, comeback, based on true story, coach, racism, sport
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