Friday Night Lights
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- Synopsis
- H.G. Bissinger's best-selling true-life account of a few months in the life of a high-school football team comes to the screen in this adaptation written and directed by Peter Berg....
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- Starring
- Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund
- Director(s)
- Peter Berg
- Distributor(s)
- Universal
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 117 min.
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Critic Reviews
USA Today | Mike ClarkAdd Critic to Favorites
One of the best football movies ever, Nights in the end celebrates the game.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
The movie demonstrates the power of sports to involve us; we don't live in Odessa and are watching a game played 16 years ago, and we get all wound up.Read the full review
Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites
Thornton, giving a splendid, disciplined performance, seamlessly shapes his coach into a believable man of quality rather than star-size charisma.Read the full review
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10/27/09 Trauma , the underrated San Francisco paramedic drama from Friday Night Lights producer Peter Berg , will air at least more episodes, through Nov. 16. | E! Online -
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Silverman exit points to fresh start for NBC
09/14/09 With Ben Silverman having left the network, NBC can now shift away from damage control and speculation to fully concentrate on mining hits, a commodity that has eluded the network for three years. | Variety -
Peter Berg To Wayne Gretzky: 'Hell Yeah, I'd Do You In A Second!'
09/09/09 Eleven years after Peter Berg premiered his directorial debut, the dark comedy "Very Bad Things" at the Toronto International Film Festival, the writer/director/producer/actor/dude-who-must-never-sleep is bringing another project to the Canadian fest: a documentary about his long-time friend and hockey legend Wayne Gretzky called, "Kings Ransom." | MTV Movies Blog -
TV: Feature:The A.V. Club’s Fall 2009 TV Preview: The Year Ambition Died (Part One)
09/08/09 If someone added an older woman to How I Met Your Mother , then sucked out the show's quality, it would look like this, right down to the film style. | The A.V. Club -
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2 more seasons for 'Friday Night Lights,' and more from TV Critics Press Tour
08/06/09 Peter Berg is pushing his new slam-bang medical drama "Trauma," which he executive-produces, but he says he isn't too busy to be happy for one of his earlier babies, the much more reflective " Friday Night Lights ." | New York Daily News - New York NY -
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Billy Bob Thornton to play ball
07/14/09 Billy Bob Thornton has signed on as a producing partner on baseball-themed feature "Three Nights in August." | Variety