Movie
description |
-Billy
Bob
Thornton
Based
on
the
best-selling
book
by
H.G.
Bissinger,
Peter
Berg's
gritty,
powerful
drama
tells
the
true
story
of a
small
Texas
town
in
which
high
school
football
is
the
only
thing
that
matters.
Set
in
1988,
FRIDAY
NIGHT
LIGHTS
opens
on
the
first
day
of
practice
for
the
Odessa
Permian
Panthers.
Under
intense
pressure
and
scrutiny
from
the
town's
residents,
head
coach
Gary
Gaines
(Billy
Bob
Thornton)
nonetheless
maintains
a
calm
façade.
His
star
player,
Boobie
Miles
(Derek
Luke),
is a
running
back
with
unlimited
potential,
but
the
rest
of
the
team
is
undersized
and
lacking
killer
instinct--especially
quarterback
Mike
Winchell
(Lucas
Black),
who's
shy
and
short
of
confidence,
and
Don
Billingsley
(Garrett
Hedlund),
who
is
tormented
by
his
father
(Tim
McGraw)
for
being
too
soft.
When
Boobie
goes
down
on
opening
day
with
a
career
threatening
knee
injury,
the
season
appears
to
be
over.
But
Gaines
won't
give
up,
and
neither
will
the
rest
of
his
feisty
players.
Billy
Bob
Thornton
delivers
another
outstanding
performance
in
Berg's
impassioned
drama,
as
do
the
film's
young
actors
(most
notably
Luke,
Black,
and
Hedlund).
Tobias
Schliessler's
fuel-injected
photography
and
Explosion
in
the
Sky's
electrifying
score
make
FRIDAY
NIGHT
LIGHTS
an
even
more
spectacular
movie-going
experience.
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