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Friday Night Lights

2004
★ 7.2 / 10
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.
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Reviews
★★★★★
A great story as told by a terrible director. The bizarre jumping camera angles and liberal use of pointless cuts and zooms left me queasier that when I watched Blair Witch. Still having trouble understanding why the director felt that MTV video style of filmi...
★★★★★
This film centers around a high school football team in West Texas known as the Odessa-Permian Panthers who have set a standard of excellence that remains difficult for anybody else to surpass on the football field. However, with this success has come such a r...
★★★★★
This movie was phenomenal in every way. It had incredible performances under a great director with a fantastic story to back it up. It tells the story of a high school football team in Texas through the course of their 1988 season. Billy Bob Thorton played th...
★★★★★
When I first heard of this movie, I immediately let it go under my radar because I am not a big fan of sports movies. However, I am a huge fan of the Texas band Explosions in the Sky and when I heard a few months ago that they scored most of the soundtrack for...
★★★★★
This is the most human sports movie I've ever seen. Most sports movies follow a very basic formula of being either inspirational or comedic. Some try to be dramatic, but most fail because unless a person is playing a sport they often don't feel the tension, th...
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