Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 5 nominations
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Did you know
- TriviaThe real James "Boobie" Miles can be seen standing next to Derek Luke (playing "Boobie" Miles) several times throughout the film. He is wearing a black Permian jacket and hat.
- GoofsWhen departing Odessa for the game in the Houston Astrodome, the coach tells a player that "we have a six hour ride" when in reality it would take at least eight to nine hours to drive the 500 miles from Odessa to Houston.
- Quotes
Coach Gary Gaines: Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didnt let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There wasnt one more thing you could've done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman - you're perfect!
- ConnectionsEdited into Friday Night Lights: Deleted Scenes (2007)
- SoundtracksTerminator X to the Edge of Panic
Written by Chuck D (as Carlton Ridenhour), Terminator X (as Norman Rodgers),
Flavor Flav (as William Drayton)
Performed by Public Enemy
Courtesy of The Island Def Jam Music Group
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Unfortunately, other aspects of "Friday Night Lights" hover around the average mark. The story offers little in the way of originality, except for perhaps the ending (if you haven't seen it, I won't spoil it for you). It's basically your typical high-school-sports-team-carrying-great-expectations tale. Director Peter Berg tries covering as many worthwhile human angles as he can. A star player must deal with the end of his career. The coach is shunned by fans taking the game way too seriously. Young men must balance the confusion of early adulthood with the stress of being sports icons. Again, it's nothing we haven't seen before ("Hoosiers" and "The Program" come to mind).
Although it's based on the true story of Texas's Permian High Panthers, "Friday Night Lights" has a decidedly Hollywoodish feel. Perhaps out of necessity -- cramming an entire book into two hours is a gargantuan task -- the characters seem too oversimplified to be real. The Panthers are a diverse bunch, but they're also clichéd: he's the troubled one, he's the one who has trouble with girls, he's the one from a broken home. And while Berg's directorial style is electric, it hampers his ability to capture a small town feel so crucial to the film succeeding.
Those behind "Friday Night Lights" deserve an "A" for effort, something you certainly can't say about every film. But what it delivers in style it generally lacks in substance.
- ReelCheese
- Dec 29, 2006
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- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $61,255,921
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $20,269,025
- Oct 10, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $61,950,770
- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1